Erick Verran is a writer and poet. Currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Florida, his poetry last appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Little Star, Gargoyle Magazine, the New England Review of Books, and City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems, while short dispatches on overlooked ekphrasis in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and a critical explication of the dialogues in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot have been respectively published in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany and Contemporary Aesthetics.