Erin Pesut is a poet, essayist, and short story writer living in southern Vermont. Her writing has appeared in Chautauqua, Cleaver, Copper Nickel, Camas, Clepsydra, Colorado Review, Whale Road Review, West Trestle Review, Poetry South, and Bracken, among other places, and is forthcoming from Amethyst Review and Consequence. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University where she was a School of the Arts Fiction Fellow and a B.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. She is currently at work on her first poetry collection.