Erica Funkhouser is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

. She graduated from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely follo ...

with a BA and from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

with a MA. She teaches at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

. Her work appeared in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', and ''Poetry''. She lives in

Essex, Massachusetts Essex is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, 26 miles (42 km) north of Boston and 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Newburyport. It is known for its former role as a center of shipbuilding. The population was 3,675 at the 2020 ce ...

Awards

* 2007 Guggenheim fellowship

Works

*
Post & Rail
'' University of Washington Press, 2018

''AGNI 66'', 2006
"Day Work"
''Beatrice'', 15 March 2008

Poetry Foundation
''Earthly''
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008,
''Pursuit''
Houghton Mifflin, 2002, *''The actual world'', Houghton Mifflin, 1997, * ''Sure Shot and Other Poems'', Houghton Mifflin, 1992 * ''Natural Affinities'', A. James Books, 1983,

Anthologies

"My Father's Lunch"
''Good Poems for Hard Times'', Editor Garrison Keillor, Penguin Group, 2006,
"The Women Who Clean Fish"
''Working classics: poems on industrial life'', Editors Peter Oresick, Nicholas Coles, University of Illinois Press, 1990,
"Lilies"
''Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology'', Editors Ruth Lepson, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher University of Illinois Press, 2004,

Non-fiction

*''Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery, an illustrated history'', Authors Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, William Least Heat Moon, Stephen E. Ambrose, Erica Funkhouser, Knopf, 1997,

References

External links

"www.ericafunkhouser.com"
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