Erin Eileen Almond is a novelist, short story writer, essayist and reviewer. Her work has been published in The Sun, The Boston Globe, Literary Mama, Colorado Review, Normal School, Small Spiral Notebook, and on WBUR’s Cognoscenti column, and The Rumpus.net. She is a graduate of the UC-Irvine MFA program and Wesleyan University, and a recipient of a St. Botolph Foundation Emerging Artists Grant. Erin lives outside Boston with her husband, Steve, and their three children.