Penelope Embodied

Watch the book trailer for Penelope Embodied.   Karine Leno Ancellin was born and grew up in New York city until she moved first to Paris, then London, and further out to the Sahara region in West Africa, where she lived and reported from Mauritania as a journalist. She then spent time in China, India, and Israel. She has four amazing boys with their wonderful father, yet they have parted ways. She studied Literature and Anthropology at the Charles V Institute of Paris VII and worked on Kaleidoscopic identities of Muslim Characters for her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit of Brussels. As a professor of poetry, prose and drama, she constantly rereads the classics. She loves Hanna Arendt, Sappho, W.H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, ee cummings, Sylvia Plath, Beckett, and Borges, among others. Music is her higher joy. She also translates texts of literature and writes essays. Her first poetry collection The Missing Angle (Riza Press, 2019) addresses the fluidity in the architecture of contemporary em