Marianne Jay Erhardt is the author of Lucky Bodies (Texas Tech University Press, 2025), winner of the Iron Horse Prize. Her writing appears in Orion, The Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Electric Literature, Conjunctions, and elsewhere, and has been recognized and supported by a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, a VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, a Pushcart nomination, and a residency at Vermont Studio Center. She received her MFA in poetry from UW-Madison and teaches writing at Wake Forest University.

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