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Elana Bell's tender poems about motherhood, caregiving, mental illness, longing, infertility, childbirth, and renewal reveal the intricacies of mother-child relationships.
Info autore
Elana Bell is a poet, sound practitioner, and sacred creative. Her debut poetry collection,
Eyes, Stones (Louisiana State University Press 2012), was selected by Fanny Howe as winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her writing has appeared in
Harvard Review,
Massachusetts Review,
AGNI,
Barrow Street, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the AROHO Foundation, and the Drisha Institute. She was a finalist for the inaugural Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism from Split This Rock, an award that recognizes and honors a poet who is doing innovative and transformative work at the intersection of poetry and social change.
Elana leads creative writing workshops for women, seniors, educators and youths in Israel and Palestine, and throughout the five boroughs of New York City. She has taught her acclaimed Writing Toward Peace curriculum internationally with Seeds of Peace, the Tent of Nations, and Encounter, offering transformative creative writing workshops to support dialogue and peacebuilding for educators and community members from regions in conflict. Elana currently teaches poetry to actors at The Juilliard School, and sings with the Resistance Revival Chorus, a group of women activists and musicians committed to bringing joy and song to the resistance movement. She lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn.
Riassunto
Elana Bell's tender poems about motherhood, caregiving, mental illness, longing, infertility, childbirth, and renewal reveal the intricacies of mother-child relationships.
Prefazione
Galley mailing to key reviewers and media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication.
Advanced review copies and press materials sent to a targeted list of 150-200 reviewers. Additional review copies available by request: contact@boaeditions.org.
National advertising: Poets & Writers, American Poets, and the Academy of American Poets newsletter.
Outreach to online media and bloggers including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, Literary Hub, etc. for poems and essays on motherhood and mental illness.
Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales, and Academic catalogs, etc.
Spring book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly.
Online/social media campaign: promotion through BOA’s website, blog, e-newsletter (7,400+ subscribers), Facebook (7,000+ followers), Twitter (9,000 followers), Instagram (2,500+ followers), and Pinterest (840+ followers) accounts.
Full-page feature in publisher’s in-house catalog.
E-postcards will be sent to the author’s email list of 900 followers as well as BOA’s academic contacts, reviewer contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers.
Simultaneous ebook and print publication. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed.
Book launch and readings to be pitched for NYC area, Hobart Women’s Book Festival, Sarah Lawrence College, and other universities and booksellers in New York.
Possible joint events with Kimiko Hanh (W.W. Norton), Aracelis Girmay (BOA), Shira Erlichman (Alice James), Rachel Zucker (Wave), Cate Marvin (W.W. Norton), Mahogany Browne (Willow Books), Rachel McKibbens (Copper Canyon), Alicia Ostriker (University of Pittsburg), and Cheryl Boyce Taylor (Northwestern University).
Limited co-ops available.
Promotion through the author’s website, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & Goodreads: www.elanabell.com
