Elena Karina Byrne is a poet, visual artist, teacher and editor.
Her poem "Irregular Masks" was featured in The Best American Poetry 2005 and her poem "Berryman's Concordance Against This Silence" received a Pushcart Prize in 2008 for which she has been nominated eleven times.
She was a regional director of the Poetry Society of America for twelve years.
[1] Byrne has curated poetry readings at the Ruskin Art Club in Los Angeles, and at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
[2][3] She is the daughter of American artist Herbert Jepson.