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.

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, 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