“Mandel changes the shape of the American narrative poem forever.”
—Katie Peterson, author of A Piece of Good News
About
Eli Payne Mandel is a poet, scholar, and psychoanalytic candidate. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Eli’s first collection of poems, The Grid, is published by Carcanet Press in the UK and Changes Press in the US. It is available in the UK here and in the US here. The Grid was shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, and named one of “the best poetry books of 2023” by The Telegraph.
Eli holds a BA with distinction in English from Yale College and a joint PhD in English and interdisciplinary humanities from Princeton University. He is a licensure-qualifying candidate in adult psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where he sees patients through the Treatment Center. In 2022–2023, he was a psychoanalytic intern at The Greene Clinic. Eli has also taught previously as a preceptor at Princeton and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt.
Eli’s poems, essays, and criticism appear or are forthcoming in Raritan Quarterly, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares Solos, The New Inquiry, PN Review, New Poetries, and elsewhere.
Curriculum Vitae
Eli’s CV can be accessed here.
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