Testimonials
“How many wonderful poets do you know who are also great editors and who are available to help you? The answer: One! Elaina understands your work exactly the way you do and at the same time can see how to improve it. It’s Simply Amazing how a perfect stranger (emphasis on perfect) can delicately maneuver without intruding; She’s like moonlight through trees on a lake! Your lake, her light, trees stripped of everything but your intentions.”
—Jane Miller, author of Who is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions (Copper Canyon Press)
“Elaina Ellis took such good care of my manuscript! She offered me comprehensive advice on the cohesiveness of the manuscript as a whole, asked great questions about the aims of certain poems, and gave excellent line advice about word choice and form. I've never had an editorial reading with such care and insight before, and I'm so glad to have worked with her.”
—Traci Brimhall, author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press)
“I want to say what a marvelous line edit you gave The New Gods! You provided the manuscript with exactly what it needed, finding those places where I had either given up getting closer to the bone or had a twinge of something being slightly off, but what...? In those places, you always provided direction or suggestions for revision that made the poems truer to themselves. Being a longtime literary and technical editor myself, I must say the kind of professionalism you possess, along with your kindness, honesty, and humility, is rarer than can be easily imagined.”
—William O’Daly, author of Yarrow and Smoke (Folded Word Press) and The New Gods (Beltway Editions)
“Your tone, your succinctness, your vision…. A real editor, that dying breed. I’m at once enormously grateful and truly impressed. And did I mention grateful? Beautiful solutions. Thank you.”
—Forrest Gander, Co-translator with Tomoyuki Endo of Shuri Kido’s Names and Rivers (Copper Canyon Press), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet