Erin Carpenter

Erin teaches middle school in the mountains of North Carolina. Her friends at UNC-Chapel introduced her to Appalachian bluegrass during college, but then she moved to Northern California to ride a motorcycle, study jazz piano and work at UC Berkeley. Returning to the Southeast over a decade ago, she now finds fulfillment pressure washing the dog piss out of her rugs. Bits of her creative non-fiction have appeared in The Sun Magazine’s Readers Write column and Tiny Love at the New York Times. She published a short story in Zero-Dark Thirty called After Phu Bai and occasionally works to make a novel out of it.