Erik Fuhrer (founding and managing editor)

 

Erik is a nonbinary poet, memoirist, playwright, scarf-tie aficionado, and lover of all things bold, queer, and glittery. Think Buffy Summers meets Blanche Devereux with a dash of the lion from The Wizard of Oz. When they are not turning scarves into an art form, they are writing about queer trauma, pop culture, and queer icons like Virginia Woolf and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Their 2023 poetry collection, Gellar Studies, explores queer trauma through poetic reflections on Gellar's iconic characters and was praised by Addie Tsai as “exceptionally delectable and devastating.”

Their memoir, My Buffed Up Life, picks up where Gellar Studies left off, continuing the exploration of queer trauma with everyone's favorite slayer, Buffy Summers, as a touchstone. They have a Ph.D. in creative writing, but honestly, a Ph.D. in SMG Studies might be more accurate. A mix of My Little Pony and watching Gellar chew the scenery in All My Children (and her entire career since) solidified their queerness at a young age. And let’s be real: they are still obsessed with Tenderheart Bear. Icon.

When Erik is not writing or running hushlit: a journal of noise, they are teaching at UCLA, writing personal essays about pop culture, and building a coaching business for writers and creatives.

Erik is always looking for work that engages with visual erasure, pop culture, visual and sound poetics, collages, and mashups of any kind.

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www.erik-Fuhrer.com.

 

Instagram: @erikjfuhrer

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email: erikhushlit@gmail.com