Erica Wright is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press / Dzanc Books, 2011) and the poetry chapbook Silt (Dancing Girl Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, From the Fishouse, and New Orleans Review, among other journals. She is the poetry editor of Guernica.  

Photo by Paula Wright