Erin Hoover (Of Fierce Narrative Poetry, Queer Community, and Writing Without a Map)

Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "What If Pain No Longer Ordered the Narrative" (The Sun)

Purchase: No Spare People (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)

Erin Hoover was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two poetry collections: Barnburner (Elixir, 2018), which won the Antivenom Poetry Award and a Florida Book Award, and No Spare People (Black Lawrence, 2023). Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and in journals such as Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and The Sun. Hoover lives in Tennessee and teaches creative writing at Tennessee Tech University. She curates and hosts a poetry reading series, Sawmill Poetry, and produces the “Not Abandon, but Abide” monthly interview series for the Southern Review of Books. Visit her website at erinhooverpoet.com.

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Diane Seuss

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