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Erica Reid MFA

Erica Reid MFA

Poetry & Nature Writing Faculty

Contact Information

erica.reid@western.edu
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Personal Website

Academic Divisions

Graduate Program in Creative Writing

Functional Areas

Poetry – MA or MFA in Creative Writing Graduate Program in Creative Writing Nature Writing – MA or MFA in Creative Writing

Education

MFA, Creative Writing, Western Colorado University, 2022
BA, Creative Writing, Miami University, 2005

Biography

Erica Reid is the author of Ghost Man on Second, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press); her second full-length poetry collection, How Prey Thinks, is forthcoming in 2028. Erica’s poems appear in Rattle, Terrain.org, Cherry Tree, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, and more, and she is the recipient of a 2026 Pushcart Prize. Erica is a current Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, Colorado.