E. Rowan Mena

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My work as a poet and book artist inform each other. I'm interested in words as a material force in the world. How can a poem become a room? How can a word become a sculpture in paper? Letterpress and printmaking give dimensionality to language, and the form of the book offers endless space for play.

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E. Rowan Mena is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and book artist. They hold an MFA in poetry from Brown University, an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa, and an M.Phil in Criticism and Culture from the University of Cambridge. Their poetry book Featherbone (Ricochet Editions, 2015) won a 2016 Hoffer First Horizons Award. Their translation of the Argentine graphic novel The Eternaut by H.G. Oesterheld and F. Solano Lopez (Fantagraphics, 2015) won a 2016 Eisner Award and has been adapted into a Netflix series. Their artist books are held in collections widely, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art. They have taught Book Arts, Translation, and Poetry at Brown University, Mills College, Harvard University, and elsewhere. They currently live in Fiskars, Finland where they are a founding member of the Fiskars Printmakers Association. Find and follow Rowan (for free) on Patreon (patreon.com/acyborgkitty) or Instagram (instagram.com/acyborgkitty).