Erica Goss

Erica Goss won the 2019 Zocalo Poetry Prize. Her poetry collection Night Court won the 2017 Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre Press. Her flash essay “Just a Big Cat” was one of Creative Nonfiction’s top-read stories for 2021. Other work appears or is forthcoming in South Florida Poetry Journal, Oregon Humanities, North Dakota Quarterly, Spillway, Consequence, and Critical Read. Goss served as poet laureate of Los Gatos, California, from 2013 to 2016 and now lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she teaches, writes, and edits the newsletter Sticks & Stones.