Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (great-grandmother) Eleni Sikelianos (born 1965) is an American experimental poet with a particular interest in scientific idiom.

A high school dropout, she grew up on food stamps in California with a single mom, and graduated from the Naropa Institute with an MFA in Writing & Poetics.

[citation needed] Sikelianos works as Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.

She was poet-in-residence at two homeless shelters in San Francisco in the early-to-mid 1990s and then taught at Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City and literature and Bard College's Clemente Program.

She has also taught at Naropa, and the University of Denver,[1] where Eryn Green, Carolina Ebeid and Jennifer Elise Foerster have been her students, among many others.