Erica Anzalone is the Executive Director of Witch Lit. She is a writer and educator with over twenty years of experience teaching creative writing at the college level and beyond. She is the author of Samsara, winner of the Noemi Press Poetry Prize, which explores art, war, feminism, religion, and the body through a spiritual-historical lens.
She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a doctorate in English from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she received a Schaeffer Fellowship. Her poetry and creative non-fiction has appeared in Autofocus Literary Magazine, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, The Literary Review, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere.
Erica’s classes are welcoming, thoughtful, and generative, designed to support writers at all stages. She is especially committed to helping students develop their voices through close reading, experimentation, and sustained engagement with their own curiosity.