Erica Funkhouser

Erica Funkhouser is an American poet.

She graduated from Vassar College with an AB and from Stanford University with a MA. She used to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Her work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts.

Awards 2007 Guggenheim fellowship

Works Post & Rail, University of Washington Press, 2018 "Imaginary Friends", AGNI 66, 2006 "Day Work", Beatrice, 15 March 2008 "Love Poem with Harbor View", Poetry Foundation Earthly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, Pursuit, Houghton Mifflin, 2002, The actual world, Houghton Mifflin, 1997, Sure Shot and Other Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1992 Natural Affinities, A. James Books, 1983,

Anthologies "My Father's Lunch", Good Poems for Hard Times, Editor Garrison Keillor, Penguin Group, 2006, "The Women Who Clean Fish", Working classics: poems on industrial life, Editors Peter Oresick, Nicholas Coles, University of Illinois Press, 1990, "Lilies", Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology, Editors Ruth Lepson, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher University of Illinois Press, 2004,

Non-fiction Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery, an illustrated history, Authors Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, William Least Heat Moon, Stephen E. Ambrose, Erica Funkhouser, Knopf, 1997,