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erin foss

Erin Foss is a contemporary author and cultural critic exploring identity and meaning in the New South. Her work focuses on evolving paradigms of intersectional heritage, ecopolitics and the body, and novel ways of being in a postmodern world, both real and potential. 

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As both a native Californian and Arkansan, Erin draws on her own experience to explore issues of inherited meaning across regions. At once tactile and abstract, her writing invokes new agencies and transfigures tradition, with invocations of folklore, nostalgia, feminism, and ontology. 

selected works

fiction & editorial

Prussion Blue

(2022)

Altarpiece

(2019)

Dumb Supper

(Forthcoming, 2026)

Erasure and self-deification in TSZ

(2020)

Temporal sovereignty and Hopi time

(2015)

After Apple Picking, revisited

(2013)

Fantasy, mortality, and the ick

(2024)

Vanishing kelp and deforestation

(2023)

Soft power in the longhouse

(2023)

about

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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. 

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