Erin Malone (Of Bears, Memory, and Doors)

Read: Four Poems by Erin Malone, in Electric Literature.

Purchase: Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press, 2023)

Erin Malone’s new book, Site of Disappearance, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is out now from Ornithopter Press. She’s also the author of Hover (Tebot Bach Press, 2015), and a chapbook, What Sound Does It Make (Concrete Wolf, 2008). Her recent honors include the Coniston Prize from Radar Poetry and the Robert Creeley Memorial Prize from Marsh Hawk Press. Erin has received grants and fellowships from Washington State Artist Trust, 4Culture, Jack Straw, and the Colorado Council of the Arts; and residency support from Kimmel-Harding Nelson Center, The Anderson Center, Ucross, and Jentel Foundations. Her poems have appeared in FIELD, New Ohio Review, Salamander, Cimarron, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. A former editor of Poetry Northwest, Erin has taught at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the University of Washington Rome Center, Hugo House, and with Seattle’s Writers in the Schools. She lives on Bainbridge Island, WA, and works as a bookseller.

Additional Reading:

Nox by Anne Carson

Jane, A Murder by Maggie Nelson