Erica Wright is a poet and novelist. Her latest mystery Hollow Bones (Severn House) was called "an incredibly rich work of literature" in the Nashville Scene. Her essay collection Snake (Bloomsbury) was one of LitReactor's Best Books of 2020. She’s over the moon to be releasing two books in 2026: the poetry collection A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife (Black Lawrence Press) and the mystery The Museum of Unusual Occurrence (Severn House).

Her poems have appeared in Arts & Letters, Blackbird, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She was the senior poetry editor at Guernica Magazine for more than a decade and currently teaches at Bellevue University. She holds degrees from New York University and Columbia University.

Erica grew up in Wartrace, Tennessee (pronounced “war trace” not “wart race”) and has also lived in New York City, Atlanta, Gainesville, Nashville, Houston, and Washington D.C. She currently resides in Knoxville with her family where she is trying to befriend the local crows. She’s happiest wandering around a museum or bookshop. Her current read is Terra Incognito by Steph Post.