Biography

Eve Grubin was born and raised in New York City where she attended Manhattan Country School, an independent elementary school founded on the principles of Martin Luther King, Jr. Chris Iijima was her teacher in the 6th and 8th grades.

Eve went to The Fieldston School for high school. She received her BA in English from Smith College, her MA in English from Middlebury College’s the Bread Loaf School of English, and her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She has also studied at The Hebrew University, Midreshet Rachel V’Chaya College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, and the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, where she was a fellow for two years.

Her book, Morning Prayer, appeared in 2006 from the Sheep Meadow Press. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, LIT, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic, Upstreet, and many other magazines and journals, including Conjunctions, where her chapbook-size group of poems was introduced by Fanny Howe. Her essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including The Veil: Women Writers on Its History Lore and Politics (U of CA Press, 2009). She was a fellow at Yaddo and the Millay Colony.

She was the Programs Director at The Poetry Society of America for five years (2001-2006). She founded and directed the Poetry and Mentorship Reading Series at Makor, where she taught poetry workshops and poetry craft classes. In addition, she taught in the MA program at the City College of New York. She also taught at The New School for many years. She divides her time between London and New York.