Erin Marie Lynch

Erin Marie Lynch is a direct descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (Ihánktoŋwan Dakota) and the author of Removal Acts (Graywolf Press, 2023). She received her PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Southern California. Lynch is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po), and Hugo House. A presidential postdoctoral fellow in creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, she lives in Los Angeles on Gabrieliño Tongva land.