Erica Bernheim

Erica Bernheim is a poet and professor of English at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, where she directs the creative writing program. She was born in New Jersey and grew up in Ohio and Italy. Her first full-length collection, The Mimic Sea, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award (2011) and was published in 2012. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Iowa Review, Boston Review, and Gulf Coast.