About Erin Carlyle

Erin Carlyle, originally from Alabama and Kentucky, is a poet who brings a keen sense of place and memory to her writing, crafting poems rooted in personal and cultural history and exploring themes of class, place, and girlhood. She is the author of two full-length collections: Magnolia Canopy Otherworld (Driftwood Press, 2020), and her newest collection Girl at the End of the World (Driftwood Press, 2024). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Tupelo Quarterly, Arts and Letters, Jet Fuel, and Prairie Schooner among others. She holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Georgia State University.