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About Erin Russell

Erin Russell (@etcall) is an Amsterdam-based Canadian writer and is the recent winner of the Patricia Goedicke Prize for Poetry, the Able Muse Award for Fiction and the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College Poetry Award. She is a reader at PANK and Black Bough, and her work has appeared in CutBank, Pigeonholes, Time Out, and The Holland Times. a.o.. She researches disability and queer theory in hybrid literary form and lectures in literature and writing at Amsterdam University College.

Three poems by Erin Russell

Erin Russell

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Harlingen Dis(a)sembled i. the way their mother said values— and blond kids scowled, they were suspicious behind thatched thighs: our kiss on the pier travelling north of Amsterdam, out … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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