Eléna Rivera is a poet and translator. Born in Mexico City, and raised in Paris, France, she now resides in New York City. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, most recently Scaffolding (Princeton University Press, 2017) and A Test of Labor (Essay Press, 2015). She is the winner of the 2010 Robert Fagles prize for her translation of Bernard Noël's The Rest of the Voyage (2011).