Curriculum Vitae

Erin Little (she/her) | eringlittle@gmail.com

Louisiana State University | English Department | elittl7@lsu.edu

Education

• MFA in Poetry-CW — Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2024

  • Thesis: “Personal Injury: Poems”

  • Advisor: Carolyn Hembree

  • Committee: Jennifer S. Davis, Joshua Wheeler, Ariel Francisco

• BA in English-CW — Loyola University New Orleans, LA, 2015

Academic Appointments

• August 2024 - May 2025: Full-Time Teaching Fellow at English Department for Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Academic Teaching Experience

• Teaching Fellow — English Department, LSU, Fall 2024-Spring 2025

  • English Composition 1001

  • English Composition 2000: Writing Horror

  • English 2007: Poetry Workshop

• Graduate Teaching Assistant — English Department, LSU, Fall 2022-Spring 2024

  • English Composition 1001

  • English Composotion 2000: Writing Horror

  • English 2027: Reading Poetry

Publications

• Chapbook

  • Personal Injury: Poems (Chestnut Review, 2023)

• Journals: Poetry

  • 2024: (Forthcoming) “Ars Poetica.” Beaver Magazine. Web.

  • 2023: “Take Notes on Everything.” Crab Creek Review. Web.

  • 2023: “Ode to Tony Soprano.” Olney Magazine. Web.

  • 2023: “Interrogation.” Verse of April. Web.

  • 2022: “I’ll never forgive you for loving me most beautifully at the Super 8 in Lake Charles, LA.” The Shore. Web.

  • 2022: “Alone / A Loan / All One.” Mutiny! Web.

  • 2022: “Whale Poem.” Prelude. Web.

  • 2021: “Prayer” and “Touch-Starved.” HAD. Web.

  • 2021: “Still Life with Trapdoor” and “Seaside Park, NJ.” Pembroke Magazine. Print.

  • 2020: “You Followed Me to New York.” Trampset. Web.

  • 2020: “Lagunitas.” Chestnut Review. Print.

• Journals: Fiction

  • 2024: “Airplane Mode.” Maudlin House. Web.

• Journals: Nonfiction

  • 2020: “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing.” Juxtaprose. Web.

• Book Reviews

  • 2019: Heather Christle’s The Crying Book. New Orleans Review. Web.

  • 2017: Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing. New Orleans Review. Web.

    • Reprinted in Cengage Learning’s Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 439. Print.

  • 2013: Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses. New Orleans Review. Web.

Awards/Honors

• 2023: Winner of Chestnut Review’s annual chapbook contest for Personal Injury

• 2023: Finalist in Variant Literature’s annual open reading period for Personal Injury (judges Taylor Byas and Adrian Dallas Frandle)

• 2023: Semifinalist in the Two Sylvias Press annual chapbook contest for Personal Injury (judge Diane Seuss)

• 2023: Nominee, Best of the Net Anthology, “Interrogation” by Verse of April

• 2022: Nominee, Best of the Net Anthology, “I’ll never forgive you for loving me most beautifully at the Super 8 in Lake Charles, LA” by The Shore

• 2021: Nominee, Best of the Net Anthology, “You Followed Me to New York” by trampset

• 2021: Nominee, Best of the Net Anthology, “Lagunitas” by Chestnut Review

Editorial Experience

• Freelance Editor, ErinGLittle.com | November 2020 - Present

• Editor-in-Chief, New Delta Review | August 2021 - May 2022 (Baton Rouge, LA)

• Editorial Assistant, Crown, Penguin Random House | April 2017 - January 2021 (New York, NY)

• Editorial Assistant, Routledge Research | January 2016 - April 2017 (New York, NY)

• Editorial Intern, Columbia University Press | August 2015 - December 2015 (New York, NY)

Invited Readings

• June 2024: Personal Injury Dallas Book Launch, hosted by Sebastián Paramo and Deep Vellum Books

• April 2024: Small Press Reading, hosted by New Orleans Poetry Festival at the Healing Center

• April 2024: The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, hosted by Alison Pelegrin at the State Library in Baton Rouge

• April 2024: Personal Injury New Orleans Book Launch, hosted by LMNL Lit at Bar Redux

• February 2024: Mardi Gras in Exile AWP Off-Site Reading, hosted by LMNL Lit at Oak & Steel in Kansas City