Author Description

"THE LIGHT YOU CANNOT TOUCH is raw, wild, surprising, unafraid, and spry with flares of unforgettable brilliance." --Savannah Thorne, executive director of Balkan Press and managing editor of Conclave: A Journal of Character. "Erin York leaves no doubt that she's a writer of heart and vitality in these moving poems. She's one to watch, one to listen for when you need poetry to take you to places only the heart knows." --Allison Joseph, My Father's Kites: Poems and editor-in-chief of Crab Orchard Review "Erin York takes her reader from innocence to experience, through loss and gain, through the tangled bodies of love in unexpected ways." --Maryfrances Wagner, Red Silk, winner of the Thorpe Menn Book Award and co-editor of the I-70 Review