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Erin Marie Lynch is an artist and educator—her practice spans language, digital media, and archival materials. Her book Removal Acts (Graywolf Press, October 2023) was a finalist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award. Her poems appear in POETRY, New England Review, DIAGRAM, Narrative, Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, and other publications.
She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, MacDowell, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Indigenous Nations Poets, and the Hugo House.
She was born and raised in Oregon; she is Ihánktoŋwan Dakota & a direct descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She lives in Los Angeles.