Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series
Mieke Eerkens
September 13, 2024
蜜桃影像 the Author
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鈥檚 Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, 鈥淔ound鈥 Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts; Water鈥檚 Edge, and A Book of Uncommon Prayer, selected as a 鈥渘otable essay鈥 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鈥 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鈥檚 Writers鈥 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.