About the Author

Erica Wright is the author of the poetry collections ALL THE BAYOU STORIES END WITH DROWNED (Black Lawrence Press, 2017) and INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She is poetry editor at Guernica Magazine as well as an editorial board member of Alice James Books. Her latest novel is The Granite Moth (Pegasus, 2015).