Office:  Keiper 312

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A.B., University of Michigan, Creative Writing and Literature

M.F.A., Naropa University, Writing & Poetics

Ph.D., University of Denver, English

Erik joined the F&M faculty in 2012, and from 2014-2019 he directed the annual Emerging Writers Festival. He specializes in creative nonfiction, with an emphasis on the literary essay, science writing, and hybrid/experimental forms.  His current writing projects address topics as various as whiteness, pop music, and kinesthesia.  

Books

Bird (Bloomsbury/Object Lessons, 2020)

Flutter Point (Zone 3 Press, 2017)

Estranger (Rescue Press, 2016)

The Poetics of Trespass (Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, 2010)

Journals

3:AM Magazine, American Letters & Commentary, The American Scholar, Bending Genre, Black Warrior Review, Bombay Gin, The Collagist, Denver Quarterly, Entropy, Essay Daily, Hayden's Ferry Review, Jacket, The Kenyon Review, The Laurel Review, Lit Hub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Necessary Fiction, Pilot Light, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Poor Claudia, Puerto Del Sol, Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Recluse, The Rupture, Salon, Seneca Review, Sleeping Fish, Something on Paper, Tammy, Terminus, Terrain.org, Territory, Trickhouse, Unstuck, Versal, West Branch, Western Humanities Review, Witness, and Zone 3, among others. 

Interviews, Etc.

"Why Do We Love Birds?" (Interviewed by Marisabel Rodriguez Ramos)

"Erik Anderson Reads From Bird"

"Estranger and Estranger: Breaking the Rules with Erik Anderson" 

"Craig Reinbold Poses Nude with Erik Anderson"

"Erik Anderson Interviewed by Zach Savich"

"Erik Anderson Interviewed by B. Douglas Caldwell"

CNX147: How to Write Home

CNX152: Lost in Space 

ENG225 Introduction to Creative Writing (Spring 2021)

ENG272 Getting Personal: The Lyric Essay 

ENG258 / ENV258/ STS258 Science Writing: Fact & Fiction 

ENG384 Writing Nonfiction (Spring 2021)

ENG480 Advanced Creative Writing Workshop