Elisa Gabbert

Elisa Gabbert (born 1979) is an American poet, essayist, and critic. She is the author of seven collections, most recently Any Person Is the Only Self (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), and writes the “On Poetry” column for The New York Times.

Her writing has appeared in Poetry, Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Believer, the New York Review of Books, A Public Space, and The Yale Review.