Elisa Gabbert is an author and poet. She writes the "On Poetry" column for The New York Times. Gabbert's work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Believer, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian Long Read, the London Review of Books, A Public Space, The Nation, the Paris Review Daily, and American Poetry Review. She has published two essay collections and four poetry collections.