Niki Herd
Niki Herd is the author of The Stuff of Hollywood, The Language of Shedding Skin, and the chapbook don't you weep. She also co-edited Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master with Meg Day. Herd's poetry, essays, and criticism appear in Gulf Coast, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, New England Review, Copper Nickel, Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Obsidian, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been...See more
Niki Herd is the author of The Stuff of Hollywood, The Language of Shedding Skin, and the chapbook don't you weep. She also co-edited Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master with Meg Day. Herd's poetry, essays, and criticism appear in Gulf Coast, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, New England Review, Copper Nickel, Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Obsidian, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Ucross, Bread Loaf, the Newberry Library, and Cave Canem. She currently lives in St. Louis where she is the Visiting Writer in Residence in Poetry at Washington University. See less