Erika Meitner
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Erika Meitner | |
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| File:Meitner Headshot 2016 B&W.jpg Erika Meitner, 2016 | |
| Born | 1975 (age 50–51) |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, 1996 A.B. University of Virginia, M.F.A. |
| Occupations | Poet, author, professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Steven Trost, married on April 22, 2006[2] |
| Website | erikameitner |
Erika Meitner (born 1975 in New York) is an American poet.
Life
[edit | edit source]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.,[3] and Virginia Tech[4][5] She was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing, at Queen's University Belfast.[6] She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[7]
Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,[8] and Virginia Quarterly Review.[9]
Bibliography
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Poetry
[edit | edit source]- Collections
- Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, Anhinga Press, 2003. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Ideal Cities, HarperCollins, 2010. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Anhinga Press, 2011. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[a]
- Copia, BOA Editions, 2014. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[10]
- Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, 2018. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[b]
- Useful Junk, BOA Editions, 2022. ISBN 978-1-950774-53-1[c]
- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| To gather together | 2021 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
- "The Book of Dissolution", AGNI online
- "Big Box Encounter", Slate, April 20, 2010
- "January Towns"; "With/out", Anti-
- "Quisiera Declarar", From the Fishouse
- "Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2010, pp. 202–203
Essays
[edit | edit source]- "On Rita Dove", Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, Editors Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- "On Rita Dove", Best African American Essays 2010, Editors Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Random House, Inc., 2009, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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Awards
[edit | edit source]- 2009 National Poetry Series, for Ideal Cities
- 2018 National Jewish Book Award: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me[11]
- 2018 Finalist: National Book Critics Circle Award: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me
- 2019 Finalist: Library of Virginia: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me
References
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External links
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- Author's website
- "Erika Meitner Discusses Peeps, Virginia and Yi-Fu Tuan: An Interview by Serena Agusto-Cox", 32poems, May 5, 2009
- "Erika Meitner", From the Fishouse
- "Five Questions With . . .Erika Meitner, poet", Sentinel, Rebecca Swain Vadnie
- http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-craft-tips/interview-with-poet-erika-meitner
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Categories:
- 1975 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women academics
- American women poets
- Dartmouth College alumni
- The New Yorker people
- University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
- University of Virginia alumni
- University of Virginia faculty
- University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
- Virginia Tech faculty
- Writers from New York (state)