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Erica Reid

Erica Reid

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MFA, Creative Writing, Western Colorado University, 2022
B.A., Creative Writing, Miami University, 2005

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Erica Reid is a Colorado poet, editor, educator, and critic. Her debut collection Ghost Man on Second won the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and will be published by Autumn House Press in early 2024. Erica’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Rattle, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Inflectionist Review, Colorado Review, and more.

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