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.

Hoover served as a mentor for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ Writer to Writer in 2018, working with poet Romana Iorga.

Website: erinhooverpoet.com

Twitter Username: @erinhoover

Publications

• No Spare People , Black Lawrence Press (2023)
• Barnburner , Elixir Press (2018)

Awards

• Florida Book Award in Poetry(2018)

Employment

• Assistant Professor at Tennessee Tech University (2021 - )
• Visiting Assistant Professor and Murphy Fellow in Poetry at Hendrix College (2019 - 2021)

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in English (Creative Writing) from Florida State University
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of Oregon

Genres of Interest

Poetry