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Assistant ProfessorFirst Year Writing
Erin Lynn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Core Studies and teaches First Year Writing. Her teaching focuses on linguistic justice, literary and first-person research writing, and reading, writing, and composing in social contexts. Her composition research explores the ongoing challenges that AI editing software presents to the development of individual student voice, as well as to the strides made toward linguistic and lexical diversity in college classrooms. She is interested in long-term, solutions-based approaches that consider the student experience.
Her literary work, informed by Queer, Feminist, and Marxist theory, centers on the exploration and excavation of underrepresented voices in canon texts. She explores this theme through poetry, fiction, and scholarly prose. In addition to her twelve years' experience in teaching First Year Writing, she has taught Creative Writing and Literature at colleges across New York City.
Poetry
Forgive Our Kind, Cordella Press, 2023
“Inwood” EOGH. Winter 2024 (forthcoming)
“St. Valentine’s.” EOGH. Winter 2024 (forthcoming)
“Astoria, Dusk.” Inkwell. Winter 2024 (forthcoming.)
Forgive Our Kind, Cordella Press. March 2023, Winner of the 2022 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize
“Because I Listened to the Dark Emo Love Songs of the Aughts” Nashville Review. April 2021.
“Summer Fever” Anthropocene. Winter 2021.
“Drive” Anthropocene. Winter 2021.
“Grendel’s Mother.” Narrative Magazine. Fall 2020.
“All Hallows by the Tower” Penny Thoughts Paper, Issue 30. November 2019.
“Sport.” New Square Review. Issue Two. Spring 2019.
“Sharing a Bowl on a Monday in June.” Two Peach, Issue Five. June 2018.
“Sunlight in Winter.” Two Peach, Issue Five. June 2018.
“The Anchoress.” Long River Review. April 2018. First Place, Wallace Stevens Contest.
“Metamorphosis: November 2016.” Small Orange Journal. January 2018.
“Bacchanale.” Foothill Journal. November 2016.
“Tenderness.” Foothill Journal. November 2016. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Mount Charles Residence Hall.” Foothill Journal. November 2016.
“Deirdre.” ELKE: A Little Journal. August 2016.
“Cassandra.” Lunch Ticket. June 2016.
“Atlantique.” Long River Review. April 2016.
“Lilith Across America.” The Grief Diaries. April 2016.
Ten Poems: A Pamphlet. The Lifeboat Press, Belfast, 2014.
“Girlfriend.” Lyre, Lyre. June 2012.
“Lexington Ave.” Lyre, Lyre. June 2012.
Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, Cordella Press 2022
Provost’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching, 2020
University of Connecticut
New York Public Library Micro-Residency2019
First Prize, Wallace Stevens Poetry Award, University of Connecticut 2018
Provost’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching,
University of Connecticut 2017
Alexander Lawrence Posey Chapbook Contest, Finalist 2017
Pushcart Prize nomination, “Tenderness” 2016
John Hewitt Poetry Summer School Fellow 2014
School of Arts Fellowship, Columbia University 2013-2015
Presidential Scholarship, Manhattan College 2006-2010
EDITING AND CURATING
Founding Host and Co-Curator, Poor Mouth Poetry Series 2009-Present Bronx, NY
Associate Editor, Small Orange Journal 2018-2020
This Morning Column Editor, Coldfront 2012-2018
Founding Editor, Open Ear Journal 2010-2011 Belfast, UK
CURRENT PROJECTS
“Protecting Diverse Voices in the First Year Writing Classroom in the Age of Grammarly,” article in progress.
Demeter in Bushwick, poetry manuscript
AI in the FYW Classroom Storrs, CT
April 2024
Black Spring Books Reading Series Brooklyn, NY,
Featured Reader October, 2023
International Page and Stage Zoom
Featured Reader October, 2023
KGB Monday Night Poetry New York, NY
Featured Reader September, 2023
Art in the Basin Bronx, NY
Featured Reader April, 2023
UConn Alumni Reading Storrs, CT
Featured Reader September, 2022
Introduction to Claudia Rankine Storrs, CT
Wallace Stevens Poetry Program March, 2019
Panel on Graduate School for Undergraduates Storrs, CT
Organizer, Presenter December, 2018
Introduction to Shane McCrae Storrs, CT
UConn Reading Series October, 2018
Wallace Stevens Program Storrs, CT
Featured Student Poet March, 2018
Pedagogy after Charlottesville, UConn Storrs, CT
Presenter on Anti-Racist practices in the FYW classroom October, 2017
Long River Review Series Storrs, CT
Featured Reader December, 2015
John Hewitt Summer School Armagh, UK
Featured Reader August, 2014
Courses Taught: FYW 1000C: Composing Across Genre