Erica Hoffmeister

Born and raised in Southern California, Erica Hoffmeister now lives in Denver and teaches writing as affiliate faculty for Metro State University Denver, University of Denver, and the Colorado Community College system. A multi-genre writer, she is the author of three hybrid/poetry collections: the prize-winning Roots Grew Wild (Kingdoms in the Wild Press, 2019); Lived in Bars (Stubborn Mule Press, 2019); and All the Parts You Haven’t Lost (ELJ Editions, 2024), and is the co-editor-in-chief of Take the Fruit: An Anthology of Religious Trauma (Listen to Your Skin Press, 2024). A Pushcart Prize and three-time Best of the Net nominee, her writing has been named finalist in the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, Lorian Hemingway Prize, VanderMey Nonfiction Contest, and Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, and has appeared in Motherly, Memoir Magazine, Chaotic Merge, Flash Fiction Magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Under the Gum Tree, Plentitude Magazine, and more. As an independent scholar of pop culture, her research focuses on horror cinema, generational nostalgia, and queer/gender studies, all of which she often works into her creative writing.