Erica Funkhouser | |
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Alma mater | |
Occupation | Poet |
Employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship 2007 Poetry |
Erica Funkhouser is an American poet.
She graduated from Vassar College with a BA and from Stanford University with a MA. She teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1]
Her work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, [2] The New Yorker, [3] The Paris Review, [4] Ploughshares, [5] and Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts. [6]
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