Erica Wright is the author of INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL (Black Lawrence Press, 2011) and a chapbook, Silt (Dancing Girl Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird , DENVER QUARTERLY, Drunken Boat , From the Fishouse , New Orleans Review , and elsewhere. She is the Poetry Editor at Guernica Magazine and teaches creative writing at Marymount Manhattan College. She hails from Wartrace, Tennessee.