Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore (Anhinga Press, 2003); Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial, 2010), a National Poetry Series winner; Copia (BOA Editions, 2014); Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA, 2018), winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Useful Junk (BOA, 2022). Her poems have been anthologized widely, and have recently appeared in The New Yorker, Orion, AGNI, The New Republic, and The Oxford American. She is professor of English and MFA program director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. More at erikameitner.com. (updated 10/2024)