Eleanor Johnson edits the Poetry section of Public Books. A professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, she is the author of Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England (University of Chicago, 2023), and two collections of poetry, The Dwell (Scrambler, 2009) and Her Many Feathered Bones (Achiote, 2010). Her book on horror and feminism, Scream with Me, was published by Atria Books in September 2025.
