Erika Meitner is the author of Inventory at the All-night Drugstore (Anhinga Press, 2003) and Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls (Anhinga Press, 2011). Her second collection, Ideal Cities, was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner, and was published in 2010 by Harper Perennial. Her latest book, Copia, was released by BOA Editions in September 2014. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, APR,VQR, The New Republic and elsewhere. She is currently an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program.
