Erinn Batykefer

Erinn Batykefer earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the author of several books, including ALLEGHENY, MONONGAHELA (Red Hen Press), which won the Benjamin Saltman First Book Prize, and EPITHALAMIA, winner of the Autumn House Press Chapbook Prize. She is at work on a novel and a new collection, along with a fresh series of paintings inspired by the landscapes of Pittsburgh. She is the editor of The Long Pause on Substack, which publishes interviews with writers, artists, and other makers about breaks in their creative work, and hosts a weekly accountability group called The Ass In Chair Collective. She teaches yoga at Salt Power Yoga.