A longer bio…
Erinrose Mager is a writer, editor, and teacher. She was born in and adopted from Korea. Her work appears in Prelude, The Poetry Project’s The Recluse, DIAGRAM, jubilat, Fence, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere—and was selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50 in 2020. She is a 2020-21 Clemens Doctoral Fellow, Carrie S. Galt Prize recipient, and 2020 Wendy’s Subway Carolyn Bush Award finalist. Erinrose earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD in Literary Arts from the University of Denver. Erinrose has taught at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, universities in Missouri and Colorado, and high schools in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Erinrose now teaches at The Brooklyn Writer’s Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph’s University. Her first book Hot Fruit is forthcoming from Fonograf Editions in 2026. She is writing a novel.
