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Erica Miriam Fabri is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her first book, Dialect of a Skirt, published by Hanging Loose Press (2010), was a finalist for the 2011 Paterson Poetry Prize and included on the list for: The Best Books of 2010 at About.com; and the bestseller lists for Small Press Distribution and the Poetry Foundation. Her second book, Morphology, (2025) was the winner of the Write Bloody Publishing Jack McCarthy book award.
Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies and she has worked on projects as a writer, editor, and performance director for The New York Knicks, Urban Word NYC, HBO, and Nickelodeon Television. Her poetry has been featured in multi-media formats for short films and television commercial programming.
She has been awarded a writer’s residency at the Omega Institute and has been a featured and/or visiting poet and performer for numerous art festivals and outreach programs including drug rehabilitation centers, prisons and hospitals.
She teaches Performance Poetry and Fiction at Pace University, as well as Essay Writing at College of Staten Island for the City University of New York (CUNY). She is also a Freelance Photographer, a New Yorker, and a Mama.
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CONTACTS:
Gmail: ericafabri@gmail.com
Instagram: @ericamiriamfabri
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PRAISE FOR ERICA MIRIAM FABRI:
“Erica Miriam Fabri is an outstanding poet and teacher of poetry…I recommend her without reservation.” -David Lehman, Poet / Best American Poetry Series Editor
“Erica is one of the truly bright lights on the New York City poetry scene. She has featured for my Inspired Word spoken word event three times – which elevates her into rarefied company – and has been an absolute hit every single time. Not only is she a gifted writer, but her live performances, accompanied beautifully by Robin Andre on the guitar, are incredibly captivating – all at once laugh-out-loud funny and engagingly poignant. I can’t wait to her back on my stage.” -Michael Geffner, Inspired Word Reading & Performance Series Curator
“Fabri is a brilliant poet whose skill and sensitivity are only outweighed by her remarkable imagination and mesmerizing stage presence. Her work is smart, fierce and transforms even the most cynical among us into champions of the love poem.” -The LouderArts Project
“Erica is a focused yet charismatic and creative writer/performer/instructor; serious about her work and dedicated with great attention to detail. Her poetry is poignant and relevant, her performances take on a life of their own and her abilities as a clear and concise instructor who encourages the freedom for self discovery will be a valued quality for all privileged to learn from her.” -Brian Moore of The Kinetic Source @ musicshack.fm
“Erica Miriam Fabri has opened my mind up to poetry on so many levels that I cannot find the words to speak. She is a patient and encouraging teacher who motivates every student to write whatever and however they feel. Plus, she encourages students to perform their poetry at open mics. Erica is very open-minded and encourages students to express their opinions without being judged. She is an inspiring and creative teacher that thinks outside of the box. She always answer the emails I send her quickly and always with positivity and new ideas. I love having her as my teacher and want to take as many classes with her as possible.” -Kezia Tyson, Student, Pace University
“Erica is a dynamic instructor and talented poet with a demonstrated ability to inspire people to positive action. I’m certain she has the skills and personality to make a meaningful contribution to any community or institution she chooses to engage.” -Evan Burton, Lecturer, City College of New York
“Erica is one of the hardest workers I know. She’s often in the office until the wee hours, reading essays or meeting with teens…She is a true mentor to the young people she works with in our college bound program (using a curriculum she wrote, by the way!) and she brings a beautiful presence to our office with her lively, giving spirit.” -Marissa Lewis, Executive Director, Urban Word NYC
REVIEWS FOR DIALECT OF A SKIRT:
THE POETRY FOUNDATION: “Erica Miriam Fabri opens her debut collection, Dialect of a Skirt, with the lines: “I will be frank: I want to become a poet / while I am still young and rare. / I want to be a foxy poet.” Who knows if being on the contemporary bestseller list is part of being a foxy poet (Sure it is! Right?), but Fabri is in at number 29 this week, just behind Philip Levine and just ahead of Rae Armantrout. Not bad company.” -Harriet Staff, The Poetry Foundation Bestseller’s List.
BARRELLHOUSE MAGAZINE: “Erica Miriam Fabri’s first collection of poems Dialect of a Skirt dares the reader to keep the word beautiful written on the body.” -Michael Allen Turner, from Barrellhouse Magazine
BOB HOLMAN ABOUT.COM: “Move over, Poetry. Erica Miriam Fabri has entered the room: a first book, Dialect of a Skirt, is persona deluxe, post-feminist, playful, serious, adorable and untouchable simultaneously.“ -Bob Holman, Owner Bowery Poetry Club, for About.com’s Best Poetry Books of 2010
THE BROOKLYN RAIL: “The dance of the sexes is the theme of this promising debut by Erica Miriam Fabri. The author tells story poems. Love, sex, desire, rape, seduction, and charm are limned in first person narratives or monologues. Sometimes she’s herself and sometimes a worldly figure like Marilyn Monroe…” -Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, from The Brooklyn Rail
BOSTON AREA SMALL PRESS: “Fabri gropes our language, she creates spells from idols, icons, from her own definitions of what it means to be forever young…The truth is, no one needs to live without this book of poems.” -Doug Holder, from The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Review
THE BOXCAR POETRY REVIEW: “Fabri offers up her images as delicacies readers are unable to refuse, pandering her words like a New York street vendor. But something about Fabri is undeniably compelling. Maybe it’s her slick use of metaphor, her sassy line breaks, or fiercely feminine perspective. Whatever the case, Fabri’s work stands as a stunning first achievement and a fresh voice in poetry.” -Joy Sullivan, The Boxcar Poetry Review
SPINDLE MAGAZINE: “Fabri’s strong voice, ear for nuance, and self-confidence are on full display. She never shies from being as concise as each individual poem calls for or letting them breathe when necessary, and she experiments with rhythm and line breaks in ways that don’t feel precious or self-indulgent. -Guy Le Charles Gonzalez, from LoudPoet.com and Spindle Magazine
FARLEY’S BOOKSHOP: “Fabri’s debut collection is a raw, funny, poignant and unique. She can be frank and subtle in the same poem, always emerging from her stylized and passionate voice. Fabri is a special voice in modern poetry and if this debut is any indicator, she has many great things ahead of her.”
BOOKS:
Morphology (Write Bloody Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, 2025)
Dialect of a Skirt (Hanging Loose Press, NY, NY, 2010)
The Creatively College Bound Reader (1st Edition), (Urban Word Press, NY, 2008)
The Creatively College Bound Reader (2nd Edition), (Urban Word Press, NY, 2018)
ANTHOLOGY:
COURAGE: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls, Edited by Karen Finneyfrock, Mindy Nettifee, & Rachel McKibbens, (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014)
CHORUS (A Literary Mixtape), Edited by Saul Williams, (MTV Books, 2012)
Friday Reads Modern Love Anthology for Book Lovers, (Shelf Unbound Books, 2011)
MAGAZINE:
Change Seven Magazine, 2024, “The Greatest Night of Our Life” (short story)
LiVE! Mag, 2024, “First Love,” "Two Kinds of Cake," "How Shadows are Made," "Bees," and "Hands."
Cathexis Magazine, 2024, “Fog”
The Bangalore Review, 2024, “The Greatest Poem Ever Written”
SWWIM, April 2024, “People Who Are Afraid to Fly in Airplanes Love Harder.”
Superpresent Magazine, Spring 2024, “Quantum Entanglement is the Scientific Explanation for Love.”
Poetry Currency, 2024, “Light for You,” and “The Pool Was Empty.”
The 2River View, 2023, “Making Love to the Grief Body,” and “There Are No Tattoos in Heaven.”
Free Verse Magazine, 2020, “The Green Moon.”
North American Review, 2018, “Not a Beautiful Poem.”
IMZA GUNU, Turkey, 2014, “Sembollerin Gizli Dili (trans: The Secret Language of Symbols).”
The Irish Examiner, Cork, Ireland, November 2013, “Fish.”
SOUTHWORD, Cork, Ireland, 2012, “Fish.”
MUDFISH Magazine, 2011, “Thank you for your heart that is also a ship.”
BAP Quarterly, Fall 2010, “The Baxter Street Blues” and “High Definition Microphone Life.”
Shelf Unbound, Fall 2010, “Love in an Ice Cream Truck.”
POETS.org, Summer 2010, “Dialect of a Skirt.”
Dorado, 2009, “Blessing” and “The last time they made love.”
Trespass Magazine, 2009, “The Poet and the Egyptian.”
Ekleksographia, 2009, “The Secret Language of Symbols” and “Biracial Marriage.”
Sixth Finch, 2009, “Reincarnation” and “The Waitress.”
Hanging Loose Magazine, 2009, “Socks and Swimsuits,” “Lucky Bee,” “Dialect of a Skirt” and “Jack.”
The New York Quarterly, 2008, “The Poet and the Truck Driver.”
Texas Review, 2008, “The Third Miscarriage of Marilyn Monroe” and “The Smallest Bird on Earth.”
Spoon River Poetry Review, 2007, “The Word-Lover’s Miscarriage.”
Paper Street, 2007, “This is What I Want You to Do, When This Affair We’re Having is Over.”
42 Opus, 2007, “Could Spring Love Be Looking For You?”
Mustachioed, 2007, “You are a White Elephant.”
Sink Review, 2007, “Pocketwife” and “Jesus Christ had a Potbelly at the Last Supper.”
Her Circle, 2007, “The Night She Lay in a Bed of Razor Blades.”
OCHO, 2006, “Siamese Cat,” “India in the Dark,” “The Night of Great Shapes,” “Fishwife,” “Corpse Dream,” “Wanting Poem,” and “Marilyn and the Spelling Bee.”
Shampoo Poetry, 2006, “The Blood of Fish” and “The French Quail.”
Good Foot Magazine, 2006, “Dying Like a Dog.”
MIPOesias Magazine, 2006, “Mannequins at Lunch,” “A Cake of Soap” and “In Jacklight.”
TELEVISION / FILM / MULTI-MEDIA PROJECTS:
Fragments #2023 (a multi-media poetry project) featured at ZAZ 10TS, 10 Times Square, New York, NY
The Secret Language of Symbols (also listed as “Unarm”) (short film/poetry film), New York, NY
The Baxter Street Blues (short film/poetry film, 2013, writer / director / actor) New York, NY
▪ Official Selection, The NYC Independent Film Festival, New York, NY
▪ Official Selection, The NYLA International Film Festival, New York, NY
Ellen Ochoa (commercial spot, 2012, writer), Nickelodeon Television, New York, NY
▪ Featured Poetry commercial spot for Hispanic Heritage Month, Nickelodeon Television, Viacom Media Networks
Sonia Sotomayor (commercial spot, 2012, writer), Nickelodeon Television, New York, NY
▪ Featured Poetry commercial spot for Hispanic Heritage Month, Nickelodeon Television, Viacom Media Networks
Oscar Hijuelos (commercial spot, 2012, writer), Nickelodeon Television, New York, NY
▪ Featured Poetry commercial spot for Hispanic Heritage Month, Nickelodeon Television, Viacom Media Networks
AWARDS:
Morphology, Winner of the 2024 Write Bloody Publishing Jack McCarthy Book Prize, 2024
“The Green Moon,” Featured in the FREE VERSE Exhibition at The Queens Museum, March 2022
“Not a Beautiful Poem,” Finalist, North American Review’s 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize
“Fish,” Finalist, 2012 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, Munster Lit, Cork Ireland, January 2012
Dialect of a Skirt, Finalist, 2011 Paterson Poetry Book Prize, March 2011
“Thank You For Your Heart That is Also a Ship,” Finalist, Box Turtle Press Poetry Contest, Judge: Mark Doty, March 2011
Dialect of a Skirt, The Poetry Foundation Best-Seller Book List, October 2010
Dialect of a Skirt, SPD Best-Seller’s Book List, June 2010
Dialect of a Skirt, Best Books of 2009, About.com
Writer’s Residency, Omega Institute, 2009
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