Erin Eileen Almond is originally from East Hartford, Connecticut, and attended the Hartford Conservatory. Her short stories, essays, and reviews have been published in The Boston Globe, Colorado Review, and Normal School, and on The Rumpus.net and WBUR's Cognoscenti. She is a graduate of the UC-Irvine MFA program and Wesleyan University, and a recipient of a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Grant. Erin currently lives outside Boston with her husband, Steve, and their three children.