Thinking outside the box since 1993.

After growing up in a Massachusetts town with more cows than people, Erin Arata (they/she) achieved a BFA in Fiction from Emerson College in 2015. Since then, they have held editorial, production, and marketing jobs in the publishing industry, and written copy for food, wine, and lifestyle brands. They currently work in higher education.

Their creative writing has appeared in Prism Review, The Briar Cliff Review, and The Rumpus, among others, and been recognized at the Austin Film Festival.

Alongside Chris Gillespie, they hosted Go Chuck Yourself, a weekly retrospective on NBC’s Chuck, from 2018 to 2021.

Erin is currently querying two novels:

• GIRLS, ON FILM (YA Contemporary): The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants if The Pants were a video camera named “Old Bertha” and everyone was queer

• SHE DRIVES ME HOME (Literary Romance): The Happiest Season meets Portrait of a Lady on Fire with a healthy sprinkling of “Good Luck, Babe!”

They live in New York City with their partner, two cats, and a number of plants they haven’t managed to kill (yet).

Resume available upon request.