Erica
Gillingham
Poet. Writer. Bookseller.
About Me
Erica Gillingham is a queer poet & writer living in London, England, via Siskiyou County, California. She is a bookseller at Gay's The Word Bookshop, Books Editor for DIVA Magazine, & Poetry Editor for The Signal House Edition. Erica has a PhD in lesbian love stories in young adult literature and graphic novels. (She wrote a lot about kissing.)
Writing
> The Human Body is a Hive, debut poetry pamphlet, Verve Poetry Press
> 'Greasy Spoon Conception' - Fourteen Poems, Issue 6
> 'Minor English Goddesses' & 'The Muslin Moth' - The Signal House Edition, Issue 7
Nonfiction
> Essay, 'Three Weddings and a Marriage Equality Movement' - Queer Life, Queer Love
> Interview, 'Interview with Sara Impey, Quilt Artist' - The Signal House Edition, Issue 7
> Essay, 'Let's Make a Baby (With Science)' - So Hormonal
> Article, 'Representations of Same-Sex Relationships Between Female Characters
in All Ages Comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes', The Journal of Lesbian Studies: Special Issue on Lesbians and Comics, Ed. Michelle Ann Abate, et al., March 2018.
Media
> 14poems IG Live for Issue #6, featuring 'Greasy Spoon Conception', 10 March 2022
> 'In conversation with Malinda Lo - UK Launch for Last Night at the Telegraph Club',
Chair, Gay's The Word, 18 March 2021
> 'Untitled Writers' Salon', Featured Poet, Underrepp'd Writers Festival,
5 September 2020, hosted by Untitled Writing
> '...The Human Body is a Hive', Brighton Book Club with Anna Burtt, Episode 33,
Radio Reverb, 24 April 2022
> 'Erica Gillingham with Farnaz Fatemi', The Hive Poetry Collective, Season 4
Episode 10, KQSD FM Santa Cruz, 28 March 2022
> 'Accessing the Powers of the Solar System: An Invocation for All Fertility Treatments', Out
in South London, live recording, Resonance FM, 22 June 2021
> A Lesbian Affair, 'Erica & Alex', Season 1: Episode 9, 25 May 2020
> Feminist Book Club Paris, 'In Conversation with...Erica Gillingham', Season 1:
Episode 7, 18 July 2019
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