Erin Dorney
@erindorney.bsky.social
Sober bi writer in Western NY
Sarabande Books managing editor
Former academic librarian
Collage, zines
Books: "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus), "I Am Not Famous Anymore: Poems after Shia LaBeouf" (Mason Jar Press)
www.erindorney.com
Sarabande Books managing editor
Former academic librarian
Collage, zines
Books: "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus), "I Am Not Famous Anymore: Poems after Shia LaBeouf" (Mason Jar Press)
www.erindorney.com
Sold one of my favorite pieces today 🥰 All of the original, hand-cut paper collages (not prints!) from my book "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus) are FOR SALE via @curio-lancaster.bsky.social! Email them if there's one you're interested in owning! Loving seeing this work expand 🌀
September 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Sold one of my favorite pieces today 🥰 All of the original, hand-cut paper collages (not prints!) from my book "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus) are FOR SALE via @curio-lancaster.bsky.social! Email them if there's one you're interested in owning! Loving seeing this work expand 🌀
Went to the beach this morning 🌊
September 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Went to the beach this morning 🌊
Didn't go swimming yet but intend to.
August 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Didn't go swimming yet but intend to.
Tried to reach you after Christmas to thank you + Molly for the lovely plant, but failed.
August 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Tried to reach you after Christmas to thank you + Molly for the lovely plant, but failed.
So you see the days are full.
August 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So you see the days are full.
He has your address and if possible, will try to see you.
August 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
He has your address and if possible, will try to see you.
My pickleball sticker has been popular at zine fests/tabling lately... tis the season, I guess 🪐🪐🪐
They're $3 if you need one! Send me a message, I don't have my online shop up these days.
They're $3 if you need one! Send me a message, I don't have my online shop up these days.
July 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
My pickleball sticker has been popular at zine fests/tabling lately... tis the season, I guess 🪐🪐🪐
They're $3 if you need one! Send me a message, I don't have my online shop up these days.
They're $3 if you need one! Send me a message, I don't have my online shop up these days.
Grateful to see my book making its way into some libraries! If you work at a library and would like to add a book w/ ✅ Yoga with Adriene/influencer undertones ✅ Epistolary prose poems ✅ Image-text collages ✅ Nature & early pandemic isolation themes, let me know!
June 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Grateful to see my book making its way into some libraries! If you work at a library and would like to add a book w/ ✅ Yoga with Adriene/influencer undertones ✅ Epistolary prose poems ✅ Image-text collages ✅ Nature & early pandemic isolation themes, let me know!
Thus begins my practice of shouting out my own book once/month... Sommer Browning kindly said some weird & good things about it!
My image-text collection "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" is available now from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social (direct or via @asterismbooks.bsky.social) ❤️🔥
My image-text collection "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" is available now from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social (direct or via @asterismbooks.bsky.social) ❤️🔥
April 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Thus begins my practice of shouting out my own book once/month... Sommer Browning kindly said some weird & good things about it!
My image-text collection "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" is available now from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social (direct or via @asterismbooks.bsky.social) ❤️🔥
My image-text collection "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" is available now from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social (direct or via @asterismbooks.bsky.social) ❤️🔥
Tfw the book files are finally sent off to the printer…
April 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Tfw the book files are finally sent off to the printer…
If a single arts org was doing this they would have my loyalty forever.
April 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If a single arts org was doing this they would have my loyalty forever.
“Are you awake? I asked my husband, hoping he would awake.”
March 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“Are you awake? I asked my husband, hoping he would awake.”
Happy 1 week book birthday to me! I came down with an awful cold last week so I couldn’t celebrate properly, but it brought me so much joy to see all of my friends share photos of my book arriving out in the world. Thank you thank you thank you 🙏
March 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Happy 1 week book birthday to me! I came down with an awful cold last week so I couldn’t celebrate properly, but it brought me so much joy to see all of my friends share photos of my book arriving out in the world. Thank you thank you thank you 🙏
into a noisy structure of feeling that reaches far beyond these pages."
- Julia Bloch, author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson
- Julia Bloch, author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson
March 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
into a noisy structure of feeling that reaches far beyond these pages."
- Julia Bloch, author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson
- Julia Bloch, author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson
the imagination (“we are spongey, a new breed of grabbers”) and (“How can there be so many different shades of green?”) to love."
- Annelyse Gelman, author of Vexations
- Annelyse Gelman, author of Vexations
March 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
the imagination (“we are spongey, a new breed of grabbers”) and (“How can there be so many different shades of green?”) to love."
- Annelyse Gelman, author of Vexations
- Annelyse Gelman, author of Vexations
word music (“Lies leaf-out late—clotted and dirty.”). Dorney writes, “An illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation” and I nod, happy to be lost alongside her in the slipperiness of the real."
- Sommer Browning, author of Good Actors
- Sommer Browning, author of Good Actors
March 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
word music (“Lies leaf-out late—clotted and dirty.”). Dorney writes, “An illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation” and I nod, happy to be lost alongside her in the slipperiness of the real."
- Sommer Browning, author of Good Actors
- Sommer Browning, author of Good Actors
to reach out for human connection. Here we have an introspection that becomes full-bodied."
- Kevin Sampsell, author of I Made an Accident 🌀
- Kevin Sampsell, author of I Made an Accident 🌀
February 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
to reach out for human connection. Here we have an introspection that becomes full-bodied."
- Kevin Sampsell, author of I Made an Accident 🌀
- Kevin Sampsell, author of I Made an Accident 🌀
floating in and out like a visiting angel. Dorney's poems, like her collages, are beautiful assemblages, made of the literal stuff of life. Somehow Dorney bends epistolary address towards elegy and utopia at once, a methodology for collective dreaming—a gift."
-Wendy Xu, author of Phrasis 💛
-Wendy Xu, author of Phrasis 💛
February 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
floating in and out like a visiting angel. Dorney's poems, like her collages, are beautiful assemblages, made of the literal stuff of life. Somehow Dorney bends epistolary address towards elegy and utopia at once, a methodology for collective dreaming—a gift."
-Wendy Xu, author of Phrasis 💛
-Wendy Xu, author of Phrasis 💛
10 days until my book comes out ✨
February 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
10 days until my book comes out ✨
One thing about me is that wherever I go I have a bag of masks with me and will happily give you one.
February 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
One thing about me is that wherever I go I have a bag of masks with me and will happily give you one.
The spoils of rural living:
February 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The spoils of rural living: