​EG Cunningham is a poet, singer-songwriter, and educator born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1985 and raised in Italy and Florida. Her poems, essays, stories, and hybrid pieces have appeared in or are forthcoming from a wide range of national and international publications, including: 

The Abandoned Playground, Abstract Magazine, antiphony, A Bad Penny Review, BANG!, Barrow Street, Blackbox Manifold, Breakwater Review, The California Quarterly, Cloudbank, Colorado Review, Deluge, Drunken Boat, em—a review of text and image, FUGUE, The Gettysburg Review, La Vague, The Lincoln Review, Litro Magazine, Locomotive, Nailed Magazine, The Nation, Northwest Review, The Operating System, Pith, Plume, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Prick of the Spindle, Puerto del Sol, Quiddity, RHINO, Rust + Moth, Salt Hill, SAND: A Berlin Literary Journal, Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, The Shore, Small Po[r]tions, Southern Humanities Review, The Spectacle, Sprung Formal, They Will Sew the Blue Sail, Verse Daily,  Waccamaw,  ZYZZYVA, 1110, 3:AM Magazine, and 45th Parallel. 

Cunningham's essay “The Exedra” was awarded the 2017 LUMINA Nonfiction Prize, judged by Leslie Jamison. ​Her most recent chapbook, Oranges for Venus, was selected as the 2023 1br/3bath Editor’s Choice from Tilted House Press. 

Her work investigates the phenomenologies of place, memory, and ecology, often exploring issues related to exile, climate disaster, class, desire, and systems of power. 

​Cunningham holds an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. She is a Continuing Lecturer in Writing at the University of California, Merced.

​contact: cunningham.el [at] gmail [dot] com