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Katie Erbs lives and writes in Saint Louis, Missouri. She received her degree in English from Webster University, with an emphasis in creative writing and poetry. Her work often explores the weird, the uncomfortable, and the political. Right now She is particularly interested in the workings of the human body, art history, pop culture, the JFK assassination, the Manson murders, and niche Instagram meme accounts. Her work has

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appeared in or is forthcoming in magazines like New LettersThe Missouri Review, Grist, The Pinch, & The Florida Review. In between writing poems, she works as a university librarian.

Publications
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The American Journal of Poetry, Vol. 7, 2019

     "Georgia, 1945" & "Milkmouths"

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The Missouri Review, Poem of the Week, June 29, 2020

     "Artemisia Gentileschi Gives Head to Every Man at Once"

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The Pinch Journal, Spring 2022 (42.1)

      "After-School Haibun with Britney Spears"

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Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Issue 16, 2024

     "Magical Thinking"

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The Florida Review, 48.1 Fall 2024

     "Georgia O'Keeffe & the Atom Bomb"​

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Frozen Sea, Issue Six

     "I'd Rather Die Than End Up in Corporate America"

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The Pinch Journal, Spring 2025 (45.1)

     "Schrödinger"

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New Letters, April 2025

     "The Event Horizon"

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Blackbird, V23n3

       "In the Roses"

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Forthcoming​​

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Frozen Sea, Issue Nine

     "The Sound of Children Dying Has Been Removed From This Poem"

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