Erica McAlpine is Associate Professor of English at Oxford University and the A. C. Cooper Fellow in English at St Edmund Hall. Her first collection of poems, The Country Gambler, was published by Shearsman Books in 2016 and her second, Small Pointed Things, will appear in April of next year. Her scholarly book The Poet’s Mistake was a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” and won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Erica’s poetry has appeared in magazines including The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Slate, The Yale Review, and The American Scholar.
