Lunch Poems - Elisa Gonzalez

Elisa Gonzalez’s debut poetry collection, Grand Tour, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) and named one of the best books of 2023 by The New Yorker. FSG will also bring out her novel, The Awakenings, and a nonfiction book, Strangers on Earth. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of Yale University and the New York University M.F.A. program, she has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Rolex Foundation, and U.S. Fulbright Program. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Whiting Award.