Erika is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Alabama and co-founding editor of A Velvet Giant, an online genreless literary journal. Erika’s creative writing is featured or forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Booth, Pigeon Pages, Poetry Online, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Peach Mag, Juked, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies from Sundress Academy of the Arts and Art Farm Nebraska, as well as a fellowship from Brooklyn Poets.