Erica Wright is the author of eight books, including the essay collection Snake (Bloomsbury, 2020) and the poetry collection All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). She was the poetry editor at Guernica for more than a decade and currently teaches at Bellevue University. Her poems have appeared in Arts & Letters, Blackbird, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her family.