Nathan Erwin

Nathan Erwin is a poet and land-based organizer from the Allegheny Plateau, the northernmost tier of Appalachia. He currently operates with the Pocasset Wampanoag tribe as they fight for land, food, & seed sovereignty. His writing has recently appeared in the North American Review, Waxwing, Boulevard, Terrain.org, Poet Lore, The Journal, Gulf Coast, and Ninth Letter. He won the inaugural Environs Prize at The Maine Review judged by Dr. Craig Santos Perez. His organizing and his poetry are conversant, and so he writes about foodways, myths, medicine, and wanting.