Erica Hunt is a poet and essayist. Her books include Local History, Arcade, Piece Logic, Time Flies Right Before the Eyes, and VERONICA: A Suite in X Parts. Jump the Clock, a new and selected collection of Hunt‘s poems, was published by Nightboat Books. She has read her work and facilitated talks on American poetics and Black feminist aesthetics and politics throughout the United States, China, and Italy.

Hunt‘s poems and non-fiction have appeared in BOMB, Boundary 2, Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetics Journal, Tripwire, FENCE, and Hambone, among other publications. Her essays on poetics, feminism, and politics have been collected in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, A-LINE, and The Politics of Poetic Form. With poet and scholar Dawn Lundy Martin, Hunt co-edited the anthology Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing (2018). She is currently the Poetry Editor for The Brooklyn Rail.

Hunt has held teaching positions as the D’Angelo Chair in Humanities at St. John’s University, the Bonderman Professor of the Practice at Brown University, and the Parsons Professor of Creative Writing at Long Island University. She has also served as faculty for Cave Canem, Naropa, and Bard College. She currently teaches a course on Poetics in the Black Archives at Columbia University in the African American and Africa Diaspora Studies Department.

Hunt has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, the Fund for Poetry, the Emily Harvey Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Djerassi Foundation. She is a past fellow of the Duke University/University of Cape Town Program in Public Policy and was the 2024 recipient of the Rome Prize/Joseph Brodsky Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

In recent years, Hunt has collaborated with composers Marty Ehrlich, Myra Melford, Ingrid Laubrock, and John Aylward, with recordings forthcoming in 2026 and 2027.