# Erika Meitner

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{{short description|American poet (born 1975)}}
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| image         = Meitner Headshot 2016 B&W.jpg
| name          = Erika Meitner
| caption       = Erika Meitner, 2016
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| birth_date    = {{birth year and age|1975}}
| birth_place   = [New York](/source/New_York_City)
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| alma_mater    = [Dartmouth College](/source/Dartmouth_College), 1996 <small>A.B.</small><br/>[University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia), <small>M.F.A.</small>
| occupation    = Poet, author, professor of English at [University of Wisconsin-Madison](/source/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>
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| website       = {{URL|erikameitner.com}}
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'''Erika Meitner''' (born 1975 in [New York](/source/New_York_City)) is an American [poet](/source/poet).

== Life ==
She graduated from [Dartmouth College](/source/Dartmouth_College) with an A.B. in 1996, and from the [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia) with an MFA in creative writing, and an MA in religious studies.

She taught at [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia), [University of California, Santa Cruz](/source/University_of_California%2C_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison).<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](/source/The_Southern_Review), [The American Poetry Review](/source/The_American_Poetry_Review), Shenandoah, [Indiana Review](/source/Indiana_Review), [Alaska Quarterly Review](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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>
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|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-->}}
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*[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.&nbsp;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](/source/National_Poetry_Series), for ''Ideal Cities''
*2018 [National Jewish Book Award](/source/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](/source/National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award): Poetry, for ''Holy Moly Carry Me ''
*2019 Finalist: [Library of Virginia](/source/Library_of_Virginia): Poetry, for ''Holy Moly Carry Me ''

==References==
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==External links==
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*[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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