Eri­ka Meit­ner is the author of five books of poems, includ­ing Ide­al Cities (Harp­er Peren­ni­al, 2010), which was a 2009 Nation­al Poet­ry Series win­ner, Copia (BOA Edi­tions, 2014), and Holy Moly Car­ry Me (BOA Edi­tions, 2018). Her poems have appeared in The New York Times Mag­a­zine, Tin House, The New Repub­lic, Vir­ginia Quar­ter­ly Review, Oxford Amer­i­can, Best Amer­i­can Poet­ry, Ploughshares, and else­where. In 2015, she was the US-UK Ful­bright Dis­tin­guished Schol­ar in Cre­ative Writ­ing at the Sea­mus Heaney Cen­tre for Poet­ry at Queen’s Uni­ver­si­ty Belfast, and she has also received fel­low­ships from The Mac­Dow­ell Colony, the Vir­ginia Cen­ter for Cre­ative Arts, the Blue Moun­tain Cen­ter, and the Wis­con­sin Insti­tute for Cre­ative Writ­ing. She is cur­rent­ly an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish at Vir­ginia Tech, where she directs the MFA and under­grad­u­ate pro­grams in Cre­ative Writing.