Erika Hodges is a gender expansive poet and performance artist living in New Orleans. They are a recent graduate of Pratt Institute where they received their MFA as the Leslie Scalapino Scholar. Their work can be found at Flag + Void, CALYX, & The Poetry Project among others. They hosted and curated an interview series for Wendy’s Subway entitled, What Happens After The End. They are a 2022 Can Serrat residency fellow. They are a co-founder of Philopatry Collective and their work has been nominated for both The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. They are currently pursuing their JD at Tulane University this fall, where they hope to deepen the accompanying praxis to their poetics that might move us toward liberation.