:: Elizabeth Macklin was born in 1952 in Poughkeepsie, New York. She studied Spanish language and literature at the State University of New York at Potsdam, with a year at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and later at New York University. Her poems, essays and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, the New York Times, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. In the early nineties, Macklin also served as the poetry editor for Wigwag. She has received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, which she spent studying Basque in Spain's Basque Country. She lives in New York City.