Erica Funkhouser

Erica Funkhouser is an American poet.

She graduated from Vassar College with a BA and from Stanford University with a MA. She teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1]

Her work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly,^[2] The New Yorker,^[3] The Paris Review,^[4] Ploughshares,^[5] and Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts.^[6]

Awards

• 2007 Guggenheim fellowship

Works

• "Imaginary Friends", AGNI 66, 2006
• "Day Work", Beatrice, 15 March 2008
• "Love Poem with Harbor View", Poetry Foundation
• Earthly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-618-93342-6
• Pursuit, Houghton Mifflin, 2002, ISBN 978-0-618-17152-1
• The actual world, Houghton Mifflin, 1997, ISBN 978-0-395-87707-4
• Sure Shot and Other Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1992
• Natural Affinities, A. James Books, 1983, ISBN 978-0-914086-42-0

Anthologies

• "My Father's Lunch", Good Poems for Hard Times, Editor Garrison Keillor, Penguin Group, 2006, ISBN 978-0-14-303767-5
• "The Women Who Clean Fish", Working classics: poems on industrial life, Editors Peter Oresick, Nicholas Coles, University of Illinois Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-252-06133-2
• "Lilies", Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology, Editors Ruth Lepson, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher University of Illinois Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-252-07154-6

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, ISBN 978-0-679-45450-2

References

1. http://writing.mit.edu/people/instructors
2. http://www.theatlantic.com/erica-funkhouser/
3. http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=Erica+Funkhouser&queryType=nonparsed&submitbtn.x=44&submitbtn.y=7&submitbtn=Submit
4. http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/70
5. http://www.pshares.org/read/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=514
6. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/21

External links

• "Erica Funkhouser Interview"