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EG Cunningham

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

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EG Cunningham is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Field Notes (2025, River River Books) and Ex Domestica (2017, C&R Press), and two chapbooks, Apologetics (2016) and Oranges for Venus, winner of the 1br/3bath Editor’s Choice from Tilted House Press (2024).

Her poems, prose, and hybrid work can be found via The Abandoned Playground, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Fugue, The Lincoln Review, The Nation, Northwest Review, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, ZYZZYVA, and other publications.

Her original music is available on Apple, Bandcamp, Spotify, and Tidal.

Cunningham was born in South Carolina and raised in Italy and Florida. She lives in Washington.

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Average rating: 4.8 · 5 ratings · 2 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Ex Domestica 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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EG Cunningham and 2 other people liked Amorak Huey's review of Oranges for Venus: ""... yes, we were real — and rare as good news. the shuffle-shuffle first kiss. that bad light, its unrecoverable hit. more: ... ...I can see us, here and there, more or less, in different rooms" -- from "world wide want"" Read more of this review »
Jul 06, 2025 11:15PM · see review
EG Cunningham rated a book it was amazing Pereira Maintains: A Testimony (Penguin Modern Classics) by Antonio Tabucchi	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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EG Cunningham rated a book it was amazing One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Essential, deft, incisive. Omar El Akkad writes with the moral clarity of a modern day James Baldwin.
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