Erika Meitner is the author of four books of poems, including Copia (BOA Editions, 2014), and Ideal Cities (Harper Perennial, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner.  She is currently an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she directs the MFA program. She was the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at Queen’s University, Belfast in Spring 2015.