About

Erin Calabria grew up on the edge of a field in rural Western Massachusetts and has since lived in Magdeburg, Germany and New York City. She studied literature and writing at Marlboro College in Vermont and radio documentary at the Salt Institute in Portland, Maine. Her writing has been nominated for Best American Short Stories, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and the Pushcart Prize and was selected as a winner for The Best Small Fictions 2017 and Sundog Lit’s 2020 Collaboration Contest (co-written with Elodie Rose Barnes). She is a Co-Founding Editor at Empty House Press and in the past has served as an Assistant Nonfiction Editor at Pithead Chapel and as a Fiction Reader at Third Point Press. She currently writes the craft column “Soundscapes” for Reckon Review and is working on her first novel. Find her here on Mastodon.