Erin is the author of Removal Acts (Graywolf Press, October 2023), a finalist for the John Pollard International Poetry Prize and the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award. Removal Acts was named a favorite poetry collection of 2023 by The Boston Globe. The book has been described by BOMB as “precise, compassionate, inquisitive, and vulnerable” and by The Adroit Journal as “erudite, ambitious, and virtuosic in scope.”
Erin’s poems appear in POETRY, New England Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Baffler, DIAGRAM, and other publications. Her interdisciplinary practice includes image-text work, performance, and art writing, as well as collaborative work with other artists.
Her work has been supported with awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Wurlitzer Foundation, Indigenous Nations Poets, and the Hugo House.
Born and raised in rural Oregon, she is a direct descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (Ihánktoŋwan Dakota). She is currently a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
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