{{short description|American poet (born 1975)}} {{Infobox person | image = Meitner Headshot 2016 B&W.jpg | name = Erika Meitner | caption = Erika Meitner, 2016 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1975}} | birth_place = New York | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | education = | alma_mater = Dartmouth College, 1996 <small>A.B.</small><br/>University of Virginia, <small>M.F.A.</small> | occupation = Poet, author, professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison<ref>{{cite web |url=https://english.wisc.edu/staff/meitner-erika// |title=About Erika |publisher=Erika Meitner |access-date=July 6, 2017}}</ref> | spouse = Steven Trost, married on April 22, 2006<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/fashion/weddings/from-a-couple-to-parents-state-of-the-unions.html |title=The Poetry of Parenthood |last=Gordon |first=Jane |work=The New York Times |date=August 11, 2011 |access-date=July 6, 2017}}</ref> | parents = | children = | relatives = | website = {{URL|erikameitner.com}} }}
'''Erika Meitner''' (born 1975 in New York) 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.,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.anhinga.org/books/poet_info.cfm?poet_name=Erika%20Meitner |title=Anhinga Press: Erika Meitner |access-date=2010-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719183355/http://www.anhinga.org/books/poet_info.cfm?poet_name=Erika%20Meitner |archive-date=2011-07-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Virginia Tech<ref>{{Cite web |title=Erika Meitner and Honora Ankong to Read from 'Useful Junk' and 'Our Gods are Hungry for Elegies' |url=https://liberalarts.vt.edu/content/liberalarts_vt_edu/en/news/events/2022/03/erika-meitner-and-honora-ankong-to-read-from--useful-junk--and--.html |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=liberalarts.vt.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v8n1/poetry/meitner_e/index.shtml | title=Erika Meitner, Blackbird }}</ref> She was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing, at Queen's University Belfast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-open-letter-from-1500-fulbrighters-regarding-the_us_582b14aee4b02b1f5257a91b|title=An Open Letter From 1,500+ Fulbrighters Regarding The Election Of Trump|last1=Tubosun|first1=Kola|last2=Dinh|first2=Claire|date=2016-11-15|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-24|last3=Downs|first3=Benjamin}}</ref> She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<ref>{{cite web |title=UW Madison Department of English |url=https://english.wisc.edu/staff/meitner-erika/}}</ref>
Her work has appeared in ''The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v8n1/poetry/meitner_e/index.shtml|title=Erika Meitner, Blackbird|website=blackbird.vcu.edu|access-date=2018-04-24}}</ref> and ''Virginia Quarterly Review''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vqronline.org/people/erika-meitner|title=Erika Meitner {{!}} VQR Online|website=www.vqronline.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-24}}</ref>
== Bibliography == {{Incomplete list |date=June 2023}}{{bots|deny=Citation bot}}
=== Poetry === ;Collections *''Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore,'' Anhinga Press, 2003. {{ISBN|978-0-938078-74-6}} *''Ideal Cities'', HarperCollins, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-06-199518-7}} *''Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls'', Anhinga Press, 2011. {{ISBN|9781934695234}}<ref group=lower-alpha>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/30-poetry-collections-by-women-that-will-keep-you-motivated-to-resist-75171|title=30 Poetry Collections By Women That Will Light Your Political Fire|last=Miller|first=E. Ce|work=Bustle|access-date=2018-04-24|language=en}}</ref> *''Copia'', BOA Editions, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-938160-46-2}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Copia |url=https://www.boaeditions.org/products/copia |access-date=2024-09-19 |website=BOA Editions, Ltd.}}</ref> *''Holy Moly Carry Me'', BOA Editions, 2018. {{ISBN|9781942683629}}<ref group="lower-alpha">{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/01/28/578981995/the-personal-is-always-political-a-2018-poetry-preview|title=The Personal Is Always Political: A 2018 Poetry Preview|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-04-24|language=en}}</ref> *''Useful Junk,'' BOA Editions, 2022. ISBN 978-1-950774-53-1<ref group="lower-alpha">{{Cite web |title=Useful Junk |url=https://www.boaeditions.org/products/useful-junk |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=BOA Editions, Ltd.}}</ref> <!--;Anthologies (edited)--> ;List of poems {|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%' |- !width=25%|Title !|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |- |To gather together |2021 |{{cite journal |author=Meitner, Erika |date=October 4, 2021 |title=To gather together |journal=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=31 |pages=60–61 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/to-gather-together <!--|access-date=2023-06-16-->}} | |- |} <!-- Move entries below into the table above --> *[http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2010/meitner-dissolution.html "The Book of Dissolution"], ''AGNI'' online *[http://www.slate.com/id/2251210 "Big Box Encounter"], ''Slate'', April 20, 2010 *[http://anti-poetry.com/anti/meitnerer/ "January Towns"; "With/out"], ''Anti-'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100923211514/http://fishousepoems.org/archives/erika_meitner/quisiera_declarar.shtml "Quisiera Declarar"], ''From the Fishouse'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100414212322/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2010/spring/meitner-elegy/ "Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish"], ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', Spring 2010, pp. 202–203
===Essays=== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=YhTM1P3G6iEC&pg=PA111 "On Rita Dove"], ''Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections'', Editors Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1-58729-639-0}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=tHOxAYVrFSMC&pg=PA293 "On Rita Dove"], ''Best African American Essays 2010'', Editors Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Random House, Inc., 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-553-38537-3}}
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== Awards ==
*2009 National Poetry Series, for ''Ideal Cities'' *2018 National Jewish Book Award: Poetry, for ''Holy Moly Carry Me''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners|title=Past Winners|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=2020-01-24}}</ref> *2018 Finalist: National Book Critics Circle Award: Poetry, for ''Holy Moly Carry Me '' *2019 Finalist: Library of Virginia: Poetry, for ''Holy Moly Carry Me ''
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==External links== {{commons category}}{{Portal|poetry}}
*[http://www.erikameitner.com/ Author's website] *[http://blog.32poems.com/1037/erika-meitner-discusses-peeps-virginia-and-yi-fu-tuan-an-interview-by-serena-agusto-cox "Erika Meitner Discusses Peeps, Virginia and Yi-Fu Tuan: An Interview by Serena Agusto-Cox"], ''32poems'', May 5, 2009 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100922155326/http://fishousepoems.org/archives/erika_meitner/index.shtml "Erika Meitner"], ''From the Fishouse'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090505204915/http://people.virginia.edu/~esm9c/five_questions_with.htm "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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