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Erin Foss is contemporary author, poet, and cultural critic exploring identity and meaning in the New South. Her work focuses on evolving paradigms in a post-information age, ecopolitics and the body, and novel ways of being in the modern world, both real and imagined.

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As both a native Californian and Arkansan, Erin draws on her own experience to explore issues of regional identity and tradition; her work is intersectional in nature, exploring folklore, religion, biopolitics, ecology, aesthetics, nostalgia, and feminism.

selected works

fiction & editorial

Dumb Supper

Forthcoming (2026)

Prussian Blue

Conduit (2022)

Altarpiece

LIT Magazine (2019)

Erasure and self-deification in TSZ

American Journal of Philosophy (2020)

Temporal sovereignty and Hopi time

LIT magazine (2015)

After Apple Picking, revisited

The Bard's Song (2013)

Fantasy, mortality, and the ick

Granta (2024)

Vanishing kelp and deforestation

Ecovolve (2023)

Soft power in the longhouse

Second wave (2023)

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Erin obtained her MFA in Philosophy from The New School in New York. Throughout her career, she's produced criticism, short fiction, and poetry. In her professional life, she's supported work for organizations including National Geographic, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the American Philosophical Association.

Her debut collection of short stories, Dumb Supper, is forthcoming in Autumn of 2026.