Erin L. McCoy’s debut poetry collection, Wrecks, was published by Noemi Press on Oct. 15, 2025, and was a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award. The book was inspired by the great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the mid-1800s. It investigates how the human–nonhuman binary and the dehumanization it enables makes space for violence, and is deeply embedded in colonial ideology. More info here.
