About Me

Eliot White is a writer and educator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, The Schuylkill Valley Journal’s online “Dispatches” series, SundogLit, Fledgling Rag, The Skinny Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. His poem “Escape Velocity” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2019. His debut poetry collection, Perpetual Motion Machines, was published by I. Giraffe Press in November of 2023.

Eliot organizes a monthly reading series called The Turning Wheel, has led writing workshops at PCAD's Center for Creative Exploration, formerly served as editor of The Triangle, a literary blog/website, and was an inaugural poetry reader for Third Point Press, an online literary magazine. He holds a MA in English from Millersville University, with a concentration in modern American Literature.

Contact: eliot.paul.white@gmail.com.

Photo credit: Laura Burkholder

Featured Readings

First Friday Poetry, The Ragged Edge Coffeehouse, Gettysburg, PA // November 2021

Second Annual Earth Poems Reading, Berks Bards (virtual event) // April 2021

Wildwood Writers’ Festival, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA // March 2019

Poet’s Pause, a 30-minute show on BCTV, Reading, PA // June 2018

Bard Fest via BCTV, Reading, PA // March 2017

King’s Courtyard Artist’s Collective, York, PA // November 2016 

Nate Gadsden’s Writers’ Wordshop, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA // November 2016

Berks Bards, GoggleWorks, Reading, PA // September 2016

Lancaster Poetry Exchange, Barnes & Noble, Lancaster, PA // August 2016

Poetry Zone 8, BZDC, Lancaster, PA // July 2016

WordPlay: Spoken Word Festival, Theater of the Seventh Sister // Spring 2012, 2014, & 2016