Erica Hom (she/her) is a teacher, artist, and queer Filipina diaspora writer. She holds a Double BA in Russian Literature and Applied Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh, and a TESOL Certificate through Carnegie Mellon University. She is an alumnus of the Storyboard, Tin House, Juniper Writer’s Institute, Kundiman, and Madwomen in the Attic workshops.
Her writing focuses on women’s experiences in immigration, inheritance, cryptids, ghosts, and subversions of traditional folklore. Her work has been featured by various web and print publications including West Trade Review, Honey Literary, The Arkansas International, Crow and Cross Keys, 50 Haiku, ROOM magazine and others. Her poem “Migrant Worker Love Letter” was the winner of the 2022 C.D. Wright Emerging Poets Prize, judged by Patricia Smith. Later in 2022, she was nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology. Her words have been featured in local art installations by the Oakland Business Development District and the JADED community collective.
In addition to various publications, she has been a featured performer at the 2020 ECAASU conference, Carlow University’s Red Dog Reading series, and at various events through the Asian and Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Research Project (APIDVRP), where she also facilitates writing-based healing spaces for immigrants and survivors of domestic abuse.
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