Hoover Releases Debut Collection
09/2018 – Erin Hoover’s (MFA Poetry ’05) debut poetry collection, Barnburner, was selected by Kathryn Nuernberger for Elixir Press‘s Antivenom Award and will be published in 2018. Erin’s poems have appeared in the 2016 edition of The Best American Poetry, and recently in Alaska Quarterly Review, Pleiades, and Tampa Review.
Erin earned her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. from Florida State University. Born and raised in central Pennsylvania, she now lives in Tallahassee. Florida, where she teaches writing. Erin has volunteered for The Southeast Review (editor in chief), VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (lead PR advisor), Writers Resist/Write Our Democracy (PR advisor), and Late Night Library (co-founder). In addition to teaching, Erin has volunteered extensively, for The Southeast Review (editor in chief), VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (lead PR advisor), Writers Resist/Write Our Democracy (PR advisor), and Late Night Library (co-founder). Visit her website at www.erinhooverpoet.com
Release date: October 1, 2018
Barnburner by Erin Hoover, Poetry
Elixir Press, ISBN 9781932418675
Perfect bound paperback, 6 x 9
