Dr. Erika Meyers earned her MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin with First Class Honours. Her master’s thesis, Strangers in America, won first place in the Great Lakes Novel Contest and was published by Bottom Dog Press. She then went on to become a Santander Scholar at the University of Edinburgh where she earned her PhD in Irish Fiction. More specifically, her doctoral thesis focused on the effect of class on historical alienation in contemporary Irish literature. These themes span across a variety of her publications in both creative and academic writing.
Academic Papers
2020, “Nationalizing Realism in Dermot Bolger’s The Journey Home,” The Journal of Working-Class Studies
2018, “Cultural Materialism and a Class Consciousness?” The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Literature, Eric Weitz and Eamonn Jordan, eds. Palgrave Macmillan
2014, “Revision and Revisionist History in Dermot Bolger’s A Second Life,” The Luminary, Lancaster University, issue 4
Poetry
2020, “Exes,” Otis Nebula
2020, “Feast,” Otis Nebula
2020, “On Idleness,” Otis Nebula
2020, “Ancestors,” Otis Nebula
2012, “Folded Into Submission,” The SNR Review
2012, “Definitions,” The SNR Review
2011, “The Wordless,” Splash of Red
2011, “Christmas Vacation 2009,” Splash of Red
Funding and Awards
2014, Student-led Special Project Grant, The University of Edinburgh
2013, Cross-Currents Irish and Scottish Studies Bursary
2011-2014, Santander Scholarship
2013, Finalist, The Doors We Never Opened Contest, PublishED/The Inkwell Magazine. “Selling Doors in Cleveland”
2010, First Place, The Great Lakes Novel Contest, Bottom Dog Press, Strangers in America
2007, First Place, The Working People’s Poetry Contest, The Blue Collar Review. “Response Abilities”
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