Erin Hoover is the author of the poetry collection Barnburner. Her second collection, No Spare People, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in October 2023. Hoover teaches poetry writing at Tennessee Technological University as an assistant professor of English.
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Barnburner is the winner of the 2017 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press
2018 Florida Book Award medalist
Named a “favorite poetry book of 2018” by Largehearted Boy and by The Adroit Journal
A Sundress Publications “Best Dressed” selection
Featured by Ours Poetica
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“Hoover exhumes the skeletons buried neatly behind the white picket fences of modern America in a debut that is rife with outspoken disillusionment. … [This] candid portrait of normalized cruelty is likely to get readers to question their own malignant perceptions and passivity in the face of injustice.” [Read the full review]
—Publishers Weekly
“Hoover’s debut poetry collection is a fitting attempt to kick down staid, prim, even academic poetic doors.” [Read the full review]
—Booklist
Editor & Educator
Erin Hoover teaches creative writing, literature, and literary editing. She holds a PhD from Florida State University, an MFA from University of Oregon, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.
Hoover has a history of literary organizing. Until 2022, she served on the executive committee of the C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference, held annually at the University of Central Arkansas. Currently, she is on the advisory board of the Southern Literary Festival, and she curates and hosts the in-person poetry reading series Sawmill Poetry.
Hoover lives in middle Tennessee with her family but was born and raised in central Pennsylvania. She has lived and worked in diverse settings from New York City to the Florida Panhandle, gaining recognition in a variety of fields, including literary publishing and publicity, feature journalism, nonprofit advocacy, and fundraising communications.