Erin writes, edits, and publishes from her home in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is a native Arkansan.
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’s book, Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives, was a silver medalist for “Best Nonfiction South” from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) and was featured at the 2019 Arkansas Literary Festival. 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).
Erin’s work has been anthologized and is forthcoming or has appeared in The Sun, HuffPost Personal, River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things,” Scary Mommy, Catapult, The Rumpus, Ms. Magazine's Blog, Psychology Today, and elsewhere, and has been a notable in Best American Essays and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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 joined the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Foundation Fund Board for a three-year term starting January 2021. She is an avid volunteer for University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where she serves on boards that are very close to her heart—The NICU Family Support Committee and The Women's Health Advisory Council. She has served on the Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory Council since 2009. She enjoys looking for opportunities for her book, Women Make Arkansas, to support charitable organizations that advance women and girls in their creative endeavors.