Elena Karina Byrne

{{short description|American poet}}

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Elena Karina Byrne is a poet, visual artist, teacher and editor. Her poem "Irregular Masks" was featured in The Best American Poetry 2005 and her poem "Berryman's Concordance Against This Silence" received a Pushcart Prize in 2008 for which she has been nominated eleven times.

She was a regional director of the Poetry Society of America for twelve years.{{Cite web |url=http://poetry.about.com/library/blebyrne.htm |title=About.com:Poetry |access-date=2010-07-16 |archive-date=2010-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206155913/http://poetry.about.com/library/blebyrne.htm |url-status=dead }} Byrne has curated poetry readings at the Ruskin Art Club in Los Angeles, and at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/91/two-poems-elena-karina-byrne|title=Two Poems|last=Byrne|first=Elena Karina|date=2003|access-date=2019-01-14|issue=168|volume=Winter 2003|language=en|issn=0031-2037}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/572/sanctuary-of-hunger-elena-karina-byrne|title=Sanctuary of Hunger|last=Byrne|first=Elena Karina|date=2000|access-date=2019-01-14|issue=157|volume=Winter 2000|language=en|issn=0031-2037}}

She is the daughter of American artist Herbert Jepson.