Publications
Erin L. McCoy’s debut novel, Underlake, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2026.
Her debut poetry collection, Wrecks, will be published by Noemi Press in October 2025 and was a finalist for the Noemi Book Award.
Wrecks to be published by Noemi Press
My first book, Wrecks, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in October 2025 and was a finalist for the Noemi Book Awards.
Publications.
“The art of syntax” and “Incredible magic,” American Poetry Review, March/April 2024.
Four poems in the Seventh Wave, Winter 2023: “Translation,” “Uncanny valley,” “Primorskaya,” and “Self-portrait skinning twenty-three auks.”
“witch-auk & me stop over in my hometown,” selected by Joy Priest to appear in Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets’ Anthology (Sarabande Books, 2023).
“How a lake flash-froze a herd of horses,” selected for the Best New Poets 2021 anthology by Kaveh Akbar.
“when we are found we will be fused,” West Branch. Selected by guest editor Joy Priest.
“Great auk in the afterlife,” Poet Lore. Summer/Fall 2021 “Surrealism and Strangeness” folio, selected by Tarfia Faizullah.
Four poems in Narrative, May 2021: “Innocence,” “On Inertia,” “Self-portrait as a plague doctor,” and “Falls of the Ohio.”
“Woods”: Finalist for the Missouri Review’s 2021 Miller Audio Prize and featured on the Miller Aud-Cast (February 2021). Learn more + listen to the poem.
“Coin,” a short story in Conjunctions, Fall 2020.
“How a lake flash-froze a herd of horses,” second place in the 2019–2020 Rougarou Poetry Contest, judged by CAConrad.
“Homecoming” and “Detached objects” in Nat Brut., as part of the journal’s Reclamation and Restoration: A Folio Redefining the Conversation about the South (October 2019).
“‘Memoir of the late John Wolley,’ by Alfred Newton” and “Notice of an Ice-carried Boulder at Borgholm,” two poems from my manuscript, Wrecks (previously called Uncanny Valley), in Nimrod International Journal (Spring/Summer 2019).
• “On the Recrystallization of Fallen Snow,” a poem from my manuscript, Wrecks, in Beloit Poetry Journal (Fall 2018).
• Six poems in the inaugural issue of COAST|noCOAST (Fall 2018). Learn about my reading at the Seattle Art Museum with COAST|noCOAST.
• “Futures,” selected by Natalie Diaz for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2017 anthology. Learn more.
• “Stepmother” in Cimarron Review (Fall 2017, 50th Anniversary Issue). Learn more.
• “Diagnostic screenings and systematic review for CO toxicity, schizophrenia, and personality disorder” in the Bombay Gin (Spring 2018). Learn more.
• “Torches” & “Mandan, North Dakota” in Bennington Review (Fall/Winter 2017). Read “Mandan, North Dakota” here and learn more about these poems here.
• “Sojourn” & “On Airports” in Pleiades (Summer 2017).
• “The Milky Way in California” in Far Off Places (forthcoming, Spring 2018).
• “Memorials” & “Bardstown (No. 3)” in the Lampeter Review, December 2016.
• “Campers,” “Our Monster,” & “Figurine Work,” published in CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action, Fall 2014.
• “Peaceable Creatures,” published in the Tusculum Review, April 2014.
• “Bird Attack at Blank Point,” published in DIAGRAM, May 2011.
Translation.
Erin is acquisitions editor for Entre Ríos Books, where she selects Argentine poets for publication. Learn more.
Collaborated on the translation of Palabra desierta/Desert Word, a book of poems by Francisco Romano Pérez (Abra Pampa Éditions, Paris 2015).
Awards.
“How a lake flash-froze a herd of horses,” selected for the Best New Poets 2021 anthology by Kaveh Akbar
“Woods”: Finalist for the Missouri Review’s 2021 Miller Audio Prize and featured on the Miller Aud-Cast (February 2021). Learn more + listen to the poem.
“How a lake flash-froze a herd of horses,” second place in the 2019–2020 Rougarou Poetry Contest, judged by CAConrad
“Futures,” selected by Natalie Diaz for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2017 anthology
Finalist, Baltic Writing Residencies residency in London, 2020
Kentucky Writers’ Fellowship, Baltic Writing Residencies, 2019
Joan Grayston Poetry Prize, University of Washington, 2017
The University of Washington’s Grace Milliman Pollock Scholarship (2016-2017)
Oakley Hall III Memorial Scholarship to attend the Community of Writers in Squaw Valley, California (Summer 2016)
Summer Literary Seminars Unified Literary Contest, finalist, 3 years in a row in poetry & fiction: 2010, 2011, 2012
Fulbright Fellowship: Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia (2009)
The University of Louisville Creative Writing Scholarship (2007)
Critical Languages Scholarship for Russian: St. Petersburg (2007)
Education.
MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, University of Washington
MA in Hispanic Studies, University of Washington
BA in Spanish, minors in French & Russian Studies, University of Louisville