Erika Meitner

• Name — Erika Meitner • Born — 1975 • Birthplace — New York • Education — Dartmouth College, 1996 A.B. University of Virginia, M.F.A. • Occupation — Poet, author, professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison • Spouse — Steven Trost, married on April 22, 2006 • Website — erikameitner.com Erika Meitner (born 1975 in New York) is an American poet.

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.

• 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 • List of poems • Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected • To gather together — 2021 • "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

• "On Rita Dove", Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, Editors Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008, • "On Rita Dove", Best African American Essays 2010, Editors Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Random House, Inc., 2009, ——————— • Notes