Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial, 2010), Copia (BOA Editions, 2014), and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018)—winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. Meitner is currently a professor of English at Virginia Tech. Her newest book, Useful Junk (2022), is out from BOA Editions.