Erin Redfern earned her PhD in English at Northwestern University, where she also worked as a Fellow at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence. In 2016, she shared the Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Award with Metta Sama. She has served as the poetry judge for the San Francisco Unified School District Arts Festival and as a reader for Poetry Center San Jose’s print publication, Caesura, and DMQ Review. She currently teaches writing as a tutor, workshop leader, and poetry mentor. Erin’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the North American Review, the New Ohio Review, Otis Nebula, and Split Rock Review. Her chapbook is Spellbreaking and Other Life Skills (Blue Lyra Press). www.erinredfern.
