Erin Rose Coffin holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from North Carolina State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Soundings East, Maine Review, Hunger Mountain, Gulf Stream, and others. She is the winner of the 2026 Claire Keyes Poetry Award, judged by Susan Rich, and the 2021 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, judged by Tomás Q. Morín. She is a member of the Goodyear Arts Collective, where she previously served as a writer-in-residence. In 2016, she was a finalist in the North Carolina State Poetry Contest, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband and her cat.
