Erica Dawson is the author of the poetry collections Big-Eyed Afraid and The Small Blades Hurt. Slate says Dawson’s work, “generates great energy by pulling at the impossible and sometimes pleasurable tangles of what is constant in us, and what is disposable in the world.” Dawson’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2012 and 2008, Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, Harvard Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals and anthologies. She writes a column, “Dark & Sinful,” for Creative Loafing Tampa.