Erica Goss

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

Eugene, OR
Oregon US
Email: 
ericagoss@comcast.net
Website: 
www.ericagoss.com

Author's Bio

Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA, from 2013-2016. Her poetry collection Night Court won the 2016 Lyrebird Award and was published in 2017. In 2011, she won the Many Mountains Moving Poetry Contest. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2010, 2013 and 2017, and for Best of the Net in 2016 and 2017. She is co-founder of Media Poetry Studio, a poetry-and-film camp for teen girls: www.mediapoetrystudio.com. She is the author of Wild Place (Finishing Line Press 2012) and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets (PushPen Press 2014). Her poems, articles and reviews have appeared and are forthcoming in many journals, including Contrary, Tinderbox, The Tishman Review, Connotation Press, Hotel Amerika, Pearl, Passager, Consequence, Whale Road, Main Street Rag, Rattle, Eclectica, Blood Lotus, Wild Violet, The Bohemian, Café Review, Zoland Poetry, Comstock Review, Lake Effect, and Perigee. She holds an MFA in Poetry and Nonfiction from San Jose State University.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Night Court (Glass Lyre Press, 2017)
Chapbook:
Wild Place (Finishing Line Press, 2011)
Prizes won: 

Selected Awards

  • Official Selection, Cinema Poetica Film Festival, Ashland Literary Festival, Ashland, Oregon (2017)
  • Showcase Selection, Rabbit Heart Video Poetry Festival, Worcester, MA (2017)
  • National League of American Pen Women: Achievement in Letters Award (2017)
  • Best of the Net Nomination, Jacar Press, for poem “Contemporary Realism” (2017)
  • Lyrebird Award for poetry collection Night Court (2016)
  • Pushcart Nomination for Poetry (2010, 2013, 2017)
  • Poetry Prize, 2nd place and Honorable Mention, Soul-Making Keats Poetry Contest (2013)
  • Highly Commended, Bare Hands Poetry Postcard Contest (2013)
  • Special Merit Recognition, Comstock Review (2012)
  • Honorable Mention, Passager Poetry Contest (2012)
  • Winner, Many Mountains Moving Poetry Contest (2011)
  • Finalist, White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook Contest (2011)
  • Center for Cultural Innovation; $1000 grant (2009)
  • Edwin Markham Poetry Award – Judge, Al Young, Poet Laureate of California (2007)
  • James D. Phelan award for poetry (2007)
  • Dorritt Sibley award for scholarship in poetry (2007)
  • Bonnie Cox Creative Nonfiction Award (2006)

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Midnight Lantern by Tess Gallagher, I Swear I Saw This by Michael Taussig, Bigger Than They Appear by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Ed.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
German American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
German
Born in: 
Tuebingen
Germany
Raised in: 
Los Angeles, CA
California
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Last update: Dec 07, 2017