Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series
Mieke Eerkens
September 13, 2024
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Mieke Eerkens is a Dutch-American writer who grew up in Los Angeles. She earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Leidenin The Netherlands, and an M.F.A. in Nonfiction Writing from The University of Iowa. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, Catapult, Los Angeles Review of Books, Pank, Guernica, and Creative Nonfiction, among others. Her work has further been anthologized in Best Travel Writing 2011; Norton色视频下载檚 Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, 色视频下载淔ound色视频下载 Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts; Water色视频下载檚 Edge, and A Book of Uncommon Prayer, selected as a 色视频下载渘otable essay色视频下载 in Best American Science and Nature Writing, and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. All Ships Follow Me, a book about her parents色视频下载 experiences in WWII and the inheritance of war trauma, was released in 2019 by Picador/Macmillan. She has taught Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, UCLA Extension色视频下载檚 Writers色视频下载 Program, Amsterdam University and Leiden University in The Netherlands, and currently teaches for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and private workshops. She is currently working on a memoir about her younger years traveling with the circus.