Literary Arts

Erica Hunt is a poet, essayist, and author of Local History,  Arcade, Piece Logic, Time Flies Right Before the Eyes and other publications. VERONICA: A Suite in X Parts is her latest book available in September 2019 from selva oscura press. A new and selected collection of Hunt's poems is forthcoming in June 2020 from Nightboat Books. 

Hunt's poems and non-fiction have appeared in BOMB, Boundary 2, Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetics Journal, Tripwire, FENCE, Hambone and In the American Tree, among other publications. Essays on poetics, feminism, and politics have been collected in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, A-LINE, and The Politics of Poetic Form, The World, and other anthologies. 

With poet and scholar Dawn Lundy Martin, Hunt is co-editor of the anthology Letters to the Future, Black Women/Radical Writing in 2018 from Kore Press. 

Hunt has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, the Fund for Poetry, and the Djerassi Foundation and is a past fellow of Duke University/the University of Capetown Program in Public Policy.