Erin L. McCoy
UNDERLAKE (Doubleday, 2026)
WRECKS (Noemi Press, 2025)
Poetry & fiction in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Conjunctions • Assistant poetry editor, Narrative • Multilingual
erinlmccoy.com
- Join me for the official launch of my debut poetry collection, WRECKS, in Seattle this Friday!
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoy-From Wrecks by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social Out October 14th!
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyHappy pub day to Wrecks, the debut poetry collection by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social , available on the Noemi website! www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...
- In just 1 week, I’ll be launching my debut book, WRECKS, in Brooklyn alongside the brilliant @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social & @abipollokoff.bsky.social, my dear friend since MFA days. Preorder WRECKS from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/mcc...
- What an honor! This is such an astute and thoughtful review. Thanks to Benjamin and @versecurious.bsky.social 🙏🙏
- Check out the most recent episode of @versecurious.bsky.social reviewing Wrecks by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social! Link to the full episode in our story Wrecks will be released on October 15th!
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyTake a look at @noemipress.bsky.social for our current & forthcoming book. Wrecks by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social is a stunning collection or “Girl Work” by @zefrrr.bsky.social is a personal fave too!
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyThis is very exciting news — preorder Erin’s book!
- I am beyond thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel, UNDERLAKE, forthcoming from Doubleday in April 2026. UNDERLAKE is available for preorder now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804090... Thank you to @doubledaybooks.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for a gorgeous book 🙏
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyLouisville artist doing great things! SO excited for you @erinlmccoy.bsky.social ! Congratulations!!!
- I am beyond thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel, UNDERLAKE, forthcoming from Doubleday in April 2026. UNDERLAKE is available for preorder now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804090... Thank you to @doubledaybooks.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for a gorgeous book 🙏
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyWe can definitely relate to this answer from our August featured poet @erinlmccoy.bsky.social:
- I am beyond thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel, UNDERLAKE, forthcoming from Doubleday in April 2026. UNDERLAKE is available for preorder now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804090... Thank you to @doubledaybooks.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for a gorgeous book 🙏
- Read poems from my forthcoming book WRECKS ( @noemipress.bsky.social ) on A Dozen Nothing!
- Heed the great auk and check out some great new poems by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social at www.ADozenNothing.com!
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyA man who helped save a 9-year-old during a shark attack in Florida last month is now facing deportation after being taken into custody for driving without a license.
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyThe Trump regime definitely doesn’t want you to download this app that lets you report and track ICE sightings.
- "Now the trumpet of your body. Now my mouth full of air." — @adedayoagarau.bsky.social in @narrativemag.bsky.social www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems...
- Hit a big goal today: 80k words on the first draft of my new novel. 🎉
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyAjanaé Dawkins 💜 from BLOOD-FLEX (New Delta Review) @moonsatdusk.bsky.social
- Reached 66k words on the new novel 🪩
- ✨COVER REVEAL✨ I'm thrilled to share the cover of my debut poetry collection, WRECKS, forthcoming on Oct. 15, 2025. The @noemipress.bsky.social team has been a dream: @dianaarterian.bsky.social, @sargzem.bsky.social, Mariah Bosch, Auden Eagerton, & Alban Fischer—what a beautiful design!
- #AWP panel organizers: keep me in mind for any talks on debut poetry books, debut novels, magical realism, the lyric, research-driven work, and environmental justice in creative work. I'll be in Baltimore next year celebrating my new books. @awpwriter.bsky.social #AWP26
- Hit 40,000 words on the first draft of my new novel🤞
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyWhat is it, the heart, is it the sound of the pine trees blowing in the painting? —Ikkyū, tr. Mary Ruefle
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyIf someone said “Saeed, it’s important to be respectful” and I interpreted that message as an indictment… well, you’d be right to be concerned about me and for me.
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyCover reveal! I'm beyond excited to share that CLOUDWATCHER, winner of the inaugrual Stern Prize from @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & forthcoming from Copper Canyon, has a cover and is now available to pre-order (link in the replies)! 🌩️ 🌩️ 🌩️
- So many congratulations to @abipollokoff.bsky.social for this brilliant debut with @redhenpress.bsky.social. I had the honor of being in the same MFA cohort as Abi, and her work has always achieved an incredible musicality & subtlety of craft. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/pol...
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyThis is what representation in government looks like. This should have been an entire codel. It's not about waiting until the midterms. It's about taking action NOW
- I’d rather write the instruction manual for a washing machine.
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyThe only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyI will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
- Got a preliminary glimpse at cover ideas for my novel today ❤️🔥
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyLately I’ve been trying to pause the urge in myself or others I’m in conversation with to immediately look up a question we have, instead trying to ponder a bit on our own before turning to the internet. Every single time we’ve been able to figure out the right answer on our own, within minutes.
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyHow AMAZING that I am a finalist for national awards in 2 different countries: my picture book DAS DORF DER STEIENE for the Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis in Switzerland & my translation of LETTERS IN CHARCOAL for the Carnegie Medal in Illustration in the UK. 😍😍 #kidlit #kidlituk #booksky
- Petition: www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyBIG CHIEF is available NOW! Yes, NOW! How lovely it would be to be in your library. I thank everyone who made this possible, and I hope to see you out there on the BIG CHIEF World Tour!
- “Do to me what sunlight does to a river.” I remember being absolutely floored by this @patrycjasara.bsky.social line when I first read it. Still floored, awed, enchanted. ☀️🌸
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoy'have your doubts about a pill write four lines pretend it’s a poem that tomorrow will be nothing of the kind.' Three in the Morning Gemma Gorga , translated from Catalan by Sharon Dolin
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyA reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoythis is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
- “Beneath what I see is what I know.” — @rachelsedelman.bsky.social, DEAR MEMPHIS (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social) #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrymonth
- I completed my first home improvement project! Home improvement is not for me!
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- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyPlease please please continue to submit details of your terminated grant using this Google Form 👇 Your submissions continue to be key to understanding patterns of grant terminations and facilitating advocacy and litigation. 💪💪💪
- So grateful for this gorgeous delivery from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, and to finally get to hold my very own copy of @patrycjasara.bsky.social’s debut collection, WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES. 😍😍
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyMusk just got Grokked.
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyI wanted to be a poet to validate my loss. Aaron Shurin, Entre Ríos Books
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyImagine watching White Lotus, seeing yourself, and thinking “finally, hollywood makes me the hero.”
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyIt’s the Tesla Spring Sell-a-Thon! 🎉 @forbes.com $TSLA www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyin the physics of ships, weight is related to floating I’m saying you can still float: you can still feel light, some days // happy pub day to this little book, out now from @ohiounivpress.bsky.social 📚💙 www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyFor @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE. electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyI need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyFabián's work is amazing! Proud to have published his art at A Midsummer Night's Press, on the cover of Rigoberto González's #poetry collection OUR LADY OF THE CROSSWORD: a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/collections/...
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoySen. Bernie Sanders highlighted a new analysis showing that the wealthiest 1% has extracted $79 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans since 1975. In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was redirected upward—enough to provide every U.S. worker with a $32,000 raise.
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyIn 2023 alone, the bottom 90% of households would’ve earned $3.9 trillion more had inequality remained constant at 1975 levels. That’s 14% of GDP redistributed upwards to the top 1%.
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyFAA officials ordered staff on Friday to find tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, sources tell us, and most or all of these directives came verbally, which we are told is highly unusual. w/ @swin24.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyMarch 4th: Nationwide day of protests! Over 90 events added so far, and our team is working hard to get more up as quickly as possible. Find a March 4th demonstration at www.FiftyFifty.one. #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne @polrev.bsky.social #March4thForDemocracy #ImpeachTrump
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyI'm teaching a 4-week class on Mary Ruefle's "Madness, Rack, and Honey" in April. I would LOVE to spend the first month of spring discussing one of my favorite books with you. 💛
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoy🎉 We can't wait!!
- I am thrilled to announce that my debut novel, UNDERLAKE, will be published by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social. I can't express what this means to me. It’s a dream. It’s everything I’ve ever dreamed of. Thanks to Lee Boudreaux for believing in this book, & to Marya Spence for all your support.
- I am thrilled to announce that my debut novel, UNDERLAKE, will be published by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social. I can't express what this means to me. It’s a dream. It’s everything I’ve ever dreamed of. Thanks to Lee Boudreaux for believing in this book, & to Marya Spence for all your support.
- Reposted by Erin L. McCoyLast call: the deadline to apply to the 2025 Momentum Grant is 2/28. Early-career translators, don't miss your chance!
- Just eight months from now, my first book, WRECKS, finalist for the @Noemi_Press Book Awards, will be in the world! Many thanks to the Noemi team: @sargzem.bsky.social, @suzig.bsky.social, @anthonycody.bsky.social, Mariah Bosch, and especially my amazing editor, @dianaarterian.bsky.social. ✨
