Erica Hoffmeister was born and raised in the fragrant orange groves of Southern California and now lives in Denver where she teaches Creative Writing and Rhetoric.

She is a multi-genre writer, educator, and independent scholar whose work spans poetry, narrative nonfiction, personal essay, and hybrid forms. She is the author of the full-length hybrid poetry collections All the Parts You Haven’t Lost (ELJ Editions, 2024) and Lived in Bars (Stubborn Mule Press, 2019) and the award-winning chapbook Roots Grew Wild (Kingdoms in the Wild, 2019). She is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the anthology Take the Fruit: A Religious Trauma Anthology (Listen To Your Skin, 2024) and is currently writing her hybrid memoir-in-essays If You Loved Me, You Would, examining evangelicalism, purity culture, and religious deconstruction.

Erica Hoffmeister’s work has been published in Motherly, Chaotic Merge, Flash Fiction Magazine, Plentitude Magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Split Lip, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Pushcart prize in creative nonfiction, thrice nominated for Best of the Net, and has been recognized as a finalist for Ruminate Magazine and So to Speak nonfiction prizes, the William Van Dyke Short Story and Barry Hannah Prizes in Fiction, the Lorian Hemingway Prize for short fiction, and the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize.

A fanatical pop culture scholar, Erica’s research focuses on generational nostalgia, horror cinema, queer studies, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and she is co-author of the upcoming chapter “Out of the Tomb: Bisexual Awakenings and the Role of Nostalgia in Queering The Mummy (1999)” (UP of Mississippi, 2026).