Erika Meitner
Erika Meitner is an American poet.
Life
She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA in creative writing, and an MA in religious studies.She taught at University of Virginia, University of California, Santa Cruz., and Virginia Tech She was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing, at Queen's University Belfast. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
Poetry
;Collections- Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, Anhinga Press, 2003.
- Ideal Cities, HarperCollins, 2010.
- Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Anhinga Press, 2011.
- Copia, BOA Editions, 2014.
- Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, 2018.
- Useful Junk, BOA Editions, 2022. ISBN 978-1-950774-53-1
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
| To gather together | 2021 |
- , AGNI online
- , Slate, April 20, 2010
- , Anti-
- , From the Fishouse
- , Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2010, pp. 202–203
Essays
- , Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, Editors Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008,
- , Best African American Essays 2010, Editors Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Random House, Inc., 2009,
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Awards
- 2009 National Poetry Series, for Ideal Cities
- 2018 National Jewish Book Award: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me
- 2018 Finalist: National Book Critics Circle Award: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me
- 2019 Finalist: Library of Virginia: Poetry, for ''Holy Moly Carry Me ''