Erin Sherry lives and writes in Iowa City. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the University of Iowa's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where her courses in the Writing Certificate program explore the connections between storytelling and self and community advocacy. She is at work on a collection of stories and a novel, and her fiction can be found in the Masters Review, Always Crashing, the Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.