Mieke Eerkens

Mieke Eerkens teaches creative writing online for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program and is a visiting instructor for the Iowa Summer Writing Program. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Creative Nonfiction, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Guernica, among others, as well as the anthologies Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts; The Book of Uncommon Prayer; Best Travel Writing 2011; and Water's Edge: Open to Interpretation. She earned a B.A. from San Francisco State University where she was the editor-in-chief of the lit journal, Transfer, an M.A. in English from Leiden University in the Netherlands, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She divides her time between Amsterdam and California.