Erin writes, edits, and publishes from her home in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is a native Arkansan. She is a 2025 Catalyze Fellow, accompanied by a $10,000 practice-based grant for her writing.
Erin’s book, Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives, was a silver medalist for “Best Nonfiction South” from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs). She is also editor of and a contributor to Scars: An Anthology (2015), which assembles nearly forty contributors focusing on the central question of what it means to live with physical scars (featured at Columbia University’s Seminar for Narrative, Health, and Social Justice; The Louisiana Book Festival, and The Arkansas Literary Festival (now Six Bridges Book Festival).
Erin’s essays can be read here and found in The Sun, HuffPost Personal, River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things,” Scary Mommy, Catapult, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and has been a notable in Best American Essays and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Erin owns and runs Et Alia Press, a “small press for big voices,” publishing award-winning adult nonfiction and children’s books with strong ties to Arkansas. She provides publishing advice, editing, and coaching for creative writers, and loves helping businesses and nonprofits share their stories.
Erin earned an A.B. in English from Duke University, a J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law, and an M.A. in professional and technical writing from University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Erin volunteers for University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where she serves on a board very close to her heart because her daughter was born at 23 weeks—The NICU Family Support Committee. She has served on the Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory Council since 2009. She has summited Mt. Rainier in whiteout conditions.