“CHILLING AND INFECTIOUS… VANCE’S POETIC VOICE SPARKS A VIOLENT VERTIGO AS HER WORDS BURY THEMSELVES WITHIN YOU UNTIL YOU’RE LEFT MOONSTRUCK. HER WORK WILL BECOME YOUR NASTY ADDICTION.”
– EFFY WINTER, AUTHOR OF BLOODMILK

books and solo works

Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers (Novel, Stonehouse Publishing, 2019)

The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon: Poems After Remedios Varo (Chapbook, Coven Editions, 2019)

Illustrated by Manahil Bandukwala
“Erin Emily Ann Vance’s The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon is a violently breathtaking examination of death and its feasting shadows. With a melancholic voice that weaves dark witchcraft into the mind and spirit, Vance transfixes her audience in this ethereal and severely sinister collection.”
— Effy Winter, Author of Flowers of the Flesh (Rhythm & Bones Press, 2019)
With language that dazzles and haunts, Erin Emily Ann Vance has honored the work of surrealist Remedios Varo in every line of these poems. In The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon each poem is more visceral and strange than the last. There is a deep melancholy here, but something more: a door to a realm beyond our own, where reality unspools and freedom is found.
— Catherine Garbinsky, author of All Spells are Strong Here (Ghost City Press, 2018)

Someday I Will No Longer Write About You (Chapbook, Loft on Eighth Press, 2019)

Spoiled Milk + Wet Specimen (Leaflet, The Blasted Tree Art Collective & Publishing Co., 2018)

The Night Will be Long But Beautiful: The Life and Death of Jeff Lakes (Chapbook, Loft on Eighth Press, 2016)

This chapbook was also made into an exquisite art book by printmaker Tim van Wijk in 2017, for the Canada Council funded project, Print(ed) Word with Loft 112 and Alberta Printmakers. You can view it in the West vestibule of Calgary Central Library's TD Great Reading Room.

Fiction and Poetry

2019

Arc Poetry Magazine: Hagiography of Owls forthcoming
The Selkie: "Conjoined"forthcoming

Honey and Lime: Twelve Weeks and the Virgin Mary Cries for Me forthcoming

EVENT: "Washerwoman" forthcoming

Switchback: "Vegetarian Vampires" forthcoming

Augur: "Advice from Granny Moon" forthcoming
Boned, A Collection of Skeletal Writings: "No one is Coming to Save You," "Black Boots," "Devilled Eggs for Midnight Supper," "Ferta, Unsettled, 1959," "The Skin Between Egg and Shell," "Phossy Jaw," "Autopsy," "A History of Touching" forthcoming

The War Memory Anthology (AWCS): "Riley Park, 1917," "A Recipe for Strawberry Pudding" forthcoming

Hamilton Arts and Letters: "Root Rot" forthcoming

The Selkie: "Birthday"

Collective Unrest: "Rosemary's Lobotomy" "The Familiar,""A Theory of Anatomies"

Dusie: “Alice Discovers all the Rabbits are Dead"

Canthius: “Female Spirit of the Night,” “Bloodletting”

Bindweed: "Incubator," "Layering"

Collective Unrest: "The Mouth of Lynnhaven"

Train, a poetry journal: "harvest"

Dodging the Rain: "The Birdwatcher," "Porcelain," "Mademoiselle Sagee," "To Mummify a Tongue"

Literary Orphans: "Eva and the Planchette"

Burning House Press: "Quiet Wife"