Marianne Jay Erhardt is the author of Lucky Bodies (Texas Tech University Press, March 2025), winner of the Iron Horse Prize. Her writing appears in Orion, The Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Electric Literature, Conjunctions, and elsewhere, She has received awards from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has held residencies at Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. She has an MFA in poetry from UW-Madison and teaches writing at Wake Forest University.

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