Erin Coughlin Hollowell is the author of the poetry collections Pause, Traveler (2013) and Every Atom (2018), both published by Boreal Books, and Corvus and Crater published by Salmon Poetry in 2023. Her work was featured in an exhibit at the Anchorage Museum entitled Water Stories: Visual Poetics and Collective Voices by artist Andrea Wollensak. In addition to Alaska QUARTERLY REVIEW she have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Orion Magazine, Terrain.org, Prairie Schooner, and featured on the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day website.

Hollowell’s poetry has been recognized by awards from the Rasmuson Foundation, a Connie Boochever Award, and an Alaska Literary Award. She directs the Storyknife Writers Retreat and the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference. Of her poetry, Luis Alberto Urrea said this: “There comes a moment in every Erin Coughlin Hollowell poem when the heart threatens to burst open and spill light.”