Erika Meitner

Erika Meitner (Grad ’01, Grad ’13) received a U.S. Scholar Award from the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission. An associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, Ms. Meitner will be the distinguished scholar in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland for spring 2015. In addition to developing her own work, she will assist with an undergraduate course in creative writing and teach a postgraduate workshop on documentary and investigative poetry.