Erinn Batykefer

Erinn Batykefer earned her MFA in Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 and her Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. Her first poetry collection, Allegheny, Monongahela (Red Hen Press 2009) won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Prize.

In 2014, Erinn and Laura Damon-Moore were named Library Journal Movers & Shakers for their work as co-founders and editors of the Library as Incubator Project, an online website that promotes libraries as important incubators of creativity and the arts.