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Adjunct Faculty

Erica Miriam Fabri

Erika Fabri

Erica Miriam Fabri

An Evolution of the Spoken Word, Verse for the Stage, Performing Poetry, Fiction Writing - Performing Arts General
Email: efabri@pace.edu

Erica Miriam Fabri is a poet and performer and the author of Dialect of a Skirt, (Hanging Loose Press, 2010) and Morphology (forthcoming, 2025). Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, and she has worked on projects as a writer, editor, and performance director for The New York Knicks, Urban Word NYC, HBO, and Nickelodeon Television. Her poetry has been featured in multi-media formats for short films and television commercial programming. She has been a featured and/or visiting poet and performer for numerous art festivals and outreach programs, including drug rehabilitation centers, prisons, and hospitals.

Creative Works:

  • Fragments #2023: A series of visual art videos created in 2023 featuring small fragments of longer works of poetry presented by ZAZ CORNER “IN BETWEEN” 10 Times Square Billboard, South East Corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue
  • The Baxter Street Blues: (short film/poetry film, 5 minutes, 2013, writer/director/actor) Official Festival Selection for The NYC Independent Film Festival and The NYLA International Film Festival.
  • Dialect of a Skirt, book/poetry, Hanging Loose Press, 2010
  • Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls, anthology/poetry, Write Bloody Publishing, 2014
  • CHORUS: A Literary Mixtape, edited by Saul Williams, anthology/poetry, MTV Books, 2012

Awards:

  • Nominated for the KENAN Teaching Excellence Award 2021
  • “Not a Beautiful Poem,” Finalist, North American Review’s 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize
  • "Dialect of a Skirt," The Poetry Foundation Best-Seller Book List, October 2010
  • "Dialect of a Skirt," SPD Best-Seller's Book List, June 2010
  • "Dialect of a Skirt," Best Books of 2009, About.com
  • Writer's Residency, Omega Institute, 2009