Erica Wright is the author of two poetry collections, Instructions for Killing the Jackal and All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned. She was the Poetry Editor at Guernica Magazine for more than a decade. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her latest book is a collection of essays, Snake, for Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series.