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Erik Fuhrer

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Hi! I'm Erik (he/they). I'm a writer and visual artist based in Los Angeles.

I am the author of 6 books of poetry, including Eye, Apocalypse (forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press later this year). My work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfictions, and Best of the Net, and has been an honorable mention for Survision's inaugural James Tate Chapbook Prize.

I hold an MFA from Notre Dame, where I was a Princeton INCH scholar and Presidential Fellow, and am currently a Ph.D. student in creative writing at the University of Glasgow and a graduate certificate student in screenwriting at Missouri State University.

I am a founding editor of hush lit: a journal of noise , a journal of experimental writing and image.

Most of my recent creative and academic work focuses on ecological investigations as well as human and nonhuman interfaces. Representatives of this work have been published in Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal and Terse Journal.

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Eye, Apocalypse Cover Image. Collage with upside down half moon shape.

Poetry and Interior Art by Erik Fuhrer. Cover Art by Kimberly Androlowicz.

The Apocalypse as love story, as a MAGA hat, as a poem: the Apocalypse personified. This collection by Erik Fuhrer showcases his skill at making the fantastical mundane and the mundane fantastical. Every piece in this book has a lingering bite, a tiny world-ender that sinks into you and doesn’t let go.

—Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You

Cover for in which I take myself hostage. Abstract organic shapes.

Poems by Erik Fuhrer. Cover and Interior Images by Kimberly Androlowicz.

This book of poems is a horror film. It is a book in which the weird transformations, animate horror, and tender gore of Argento, Cronenberg, and Carpenter receive a horrible rebirth in language. Bodies invaded by flies, walls covered with cockroaches, spores that ache to sicken you proliferate within these pages, squarely sourced in the soil of the everyday. Read this book; insert these poems into your skin.

- Ali Raz, co-author of Human Tetris

Cover for not human enough for the census. Purple and black background reminiscent of hanging tree branches.

Poems by Erik Fuhrer. Cover and Interior Images by Kimberly Androlowicz.

InErik Fuhrer's not human enough for the census, there arecreatures of dark habits, organ breathers, tree butchers, and 1 in 100scientists agree the state of god is liquid. In these poems, aftermath requiresa new language. Dust and ash compound with mother and father, mud compoundswith blossom. These spare lyrics contain numerous transformations, and"just because the body is gone/does not mean the absence of body isgone." Absences loom everywhere--the mouth, the breath, the treacherousgod in the tempest. -Traci Brimhall

At Root Cover Image. Geometric shape on top of spare background.

Poems by Erik Fuhrer. Cover and Interior Images by Erik Fuhrer.

Cover image for VOS. Wedge shapes in primary colors.

Poems by Erik Fuhrer. Interior images by Erik Fuhrer. Cover image by Kimberly Androlowicz.

“Inspired by Woolf’s first novel, ‘The Voyage Out,’ precisely to cut her words loose from any settled meanings, Erik Fuhrer’s ‘VOS’ shimmers with the multiplicity and plasticity of language. The result is a remarkable series of poems that assemble human and nonhuman (as well as what Fuhrer calls ‘Honestly inhuman’) life in playful, strange, intimate, and often surreal arrangements.”

— Derek Ryan

Cover image for every time you die. Blue and red background.

Poems by Erik Fuhrer. Interior images and Cover Image by Marcel Herms.

"This new collection by Erik Fuhrer is as the title suggests - it deals with death. Ironically, what makes this collection truly unique is that each relatively short poem is fully alive, vibrant and possesses a cathartic power that is both personal and universal. Here is a poet who is a master of metaphor and creates lucid narratives that are layered with complexities that capture an inspired fusion of loss and enlightenment."

—Kevin Pilkington, Author of Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems

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