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.