Erika Meitner (born 1975 New York) is an American poet.
She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA, and where she is studying for a doctorate in religious studies. She taught at University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. She teaches at Virginia Tech.
Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.
"Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2010, pp.202-203
Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore Anhinga Press, 2003, ISBN 9780938078746
Ideal Cities, HarperCollins, 2010, ISBN 9780061995187
Essays
"On Rita Dove", Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, Editors Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008, ISBN 9781587296390
"On Rita Dove", Best African American Essays 2010, Editors Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Random House, Inc., 2009, ISBN 9780553385373