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 is a former editorial board member of Alice James Books and currently teaches at Bellevue University. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her family.