Erin Swan was born in Manhattan and lived there for ten years until her family moved upstate, where she started writing stories and poems. She used her early adulthood to travel, write children’s books, and work for a literary agency before going to teach English in India and Thailand. Erin earned her MA from Teacher’s College at Columbia University and began teaching in New York’s public school system in 2008.

While teaching full-time, Erin attended the MFA program at the New School and graduated with a degree in fiction. Her work has been published in various journals, including Fourth Genre, Portland Review, Atticus Review, and The South Carolina Review, and her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. WALK THE VANISHED EARTH (Viking, 2022) is her first novel.