Elaine van der Geld’s writing appears regularly in both online and print publications, including The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Ploughshares blog, Grain, The Normal School, Contemporary Verse II, and others. She has received notable mentions in The Best American Essays and Best Canadian Poetry, and is the recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant. She holds an MA in English and an MFA, both from the University of British Columbia.
Nonfiction
Winter 2025
That Kind of Girl
The Kenyon Review · “That Kind of Girl” by Elaine van der Geld If she were to set up a projector reel inside your head, select the roll from New […]
Jan/Feb 2019
Hunger
Tait sees the yellow smiley face on his T-shirt first, then the small pills in the gray knit. “Mr. Marsh?” she says. When he looks down, a few stray bangs […]