Erika Meitner | |
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 Erika Meitner, 2016 | |
| Born | 1975 (age 47–48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, 1996 A.B. University of Virginia, M.F.A. |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, author, professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison [1] |
| Spouse(s) | Steven Trost, married on April 22, 2006 [2] |
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., [3] and Virginia Tech [4] [5] She was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing, at Queen's University Belfast. [6] She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [7]
Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, [8] and Virginia Quarterly Review . [9]
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| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| To gather together | 2021 | Meitner, Erika (October 4, 2021). "To gather together". The New Yorker. 97 (31): 60–61. | |
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