Eleanor Goodman

Eleanor Goodman is an American poet and author of the poetry collection Nine Dragon Island. An acclaimed translator from the Chinese, her translation Something Crosses My Mind: Selected Poems of Wang Xiaoni was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Award and won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. She is a research associate at the Harvard Fairbank Center.

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