Erin Wood is author of Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives (2019, IPPY SILVER MEDAL for Best Nonfiction South). She is also editor of Untold Arkansas: An Anthology (2018) and editor of and a contributor to Scars: An Anthology (2015), which assembles forty contributions on scars of the body. Her work has appeared in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, The Rumpus, Catapult, Ms. Magazine’s Blog, Psychology Today, Entropy, and elsewhere, and has been a notable in The Best American Essays and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is founding owner and director of Et Alia Press. Visit her at woodwritingandediting.com. 

Erin has been a panelist at events including: 

• The CD Wright Women Writer’s Conference

• Columbia University's Seminar in Narrative, Health, and Social Justice

• The Arkansas Literary Festival / (Renamed) Six Bridges Book Festival

• The Louisiana Festival of Books