E.G. Cunningham was born in Columbia, South Carolina. Her poetry, prose, and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The Poetry Review, 3:AM Magazine, Drunken Boat, Puerto del Sol, Poetry London, and other publications. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her full-length poetry collection, Ex Domestica, is forthcoming from C&R Press.