Erica Curtis
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II. Selected writing
Essays on technology and lost history. Poems about everything else.
We've Been Doomscrolling for 2,000 Years. Now It Never Stops
On the ancient appetite for bad news — and the machine that finally made it bottomless.
Tech & Me · 2026
The AI Panic Is Missing the Real Problem in Our Classrooms
A veteran English professor on why the crisis isn't the chatbot — it's the assignment.
Medium · 2026
Write Like Nobody's Watching (Because They Aren't… Yet)
On drafting in obscurity, and why it's a gift.
Medium · 2025
The Woman History Forgot
Enheduanna, the first named author in human history — and why no one told us about her.
Medium · 2025
The World Before the Feed
What we traded for the algorithm.
Medium · 2025
Teaching Gen Z to Get Creative with ChatGPT
Curiosity, not shortcuts, is what unlocks AI in the classroom.
Medium · 2025
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Poetry & fiction
Electric Kool-Aid Tangerine Lip Gloss
Poetry
Red Ogre Review · 2026
Rangoon
Short story — Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers
Glimmer Train · 2014
For the Love of Schnauzers
Poetry
The Portland Review · 2011
Stilettos
Poetry
Eunoia Review · 2013
Red Lips
Poetry
Word Riot · 2013
Tobin
Poetry
Four and Twenty · 2011
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