Erin Adair-Hodges is the author of Let’s All Die Happy, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Every Form of Ruin, both from the Pitt Poetry Series. Recipient of the Allen Tate Prize and the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, her work has been featured in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, Sewanee Review, and more. She has received fellowships and scholarships from the Adirondack Center for Writing, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, and Vermont Studio Center. Born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, she now lives with her family in Kansas City, Missouri, and works as a fiction acquisitions editor.

Awards:
2021: Anne LaBastille Writing Fellowship (Adirondack Center for Writing
2019: James Merrill Fellowship (Vermont Studio Center)
2018: Allen Tate Award for Poetry (Sewanee Review)
2017: Sewanee/Claudia Emerson Scholar in Poetry
2016: Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Let’s All Die Happy
2016: Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholar in Poetry
2015: Sara Patton Poetry Award, The Writer’s Hotel
2014: The Georgia Review’s Loraine Williams Poetry Prize Winner
2010: National and NM Press Women Awards (Feature Writing, Section Editing)
2006: University of Arizona Poetry Center Prize

Conferences/Residencies:
Vermont Studio Center (2019 James Merrill Fellow)
Sewanee Writers Conference (2017 Claudia Emerson Scholar)
Rockland Residency
Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference (2016 Rona Jaffe Scholar)
The Writer’s Hotel (2015 Sara Patton Poetry)
Tin House Writers Workshop
Squaw Valley Community of Writers