Erika Goodrich is a graduate student at the University of South Florida, where she was the poetry editor for Saw Palm. She was second runner-up for the 2017 Spoon River Poetry Contest and a participant of Bread Loaf 2018. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in CALYX Journal, The Pinch Journal, The Boiler Journal, The Waccamaw Journal, among others. She holds a BA in Creative Writing & Literature from William Paterson University and an MLS from The University of Buffalo.