Erin MacKay was born in Mobile, Alabama, and was raised all over the Southeastern United States. She graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia; she later earned a Master's degree in linguistics from the University of Georgia.
As a child, Erin was a voracious reader of anything within reach, to the detriment of her schoolwork and social life. She began writing her own stories at an early age, most of which, mercifully, have disappeared.
Erin has just moved from Atlanta to North Carolina where she lives with her husband and two dogs. Her interests include history, linguistics, anime, travel, football, gourmet beer, and ... more gourmet beer.
NEWS:
Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet, just won the 2009 Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!
Bound for Evil has been nominated for a 2008 SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD. (details here)
Tangle Girls is out -- and getting great reviews! (See here and here.) Available now from Blind Eye Books.
...and I venture into the world of poetry! Two humorous-horror poems will appear in Anomalous Appetites, available now.
Check out the trailer for Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet from Dark Scribe Press. (Yes, a trailer! How cool is that?)
Prayers of the Living appears in Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet, from Dark Scribe Press.
Read the announcement here (and get a gander at that --wow-- big photo).
Letters Home appears in Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad from Dead Letter Press, available now.
Look for Crossing the Distance in Tangle XY, now available from Blind Eye Books.
Diminishing appears in Cloaked in Shadow: Dark Tales of Elves from Fantasist Enterprises.
The Brotherhood's Redemption appears in Clash of Steel Book 1: Reluctant Hero from Carnifex Press, available from the website.
The Last Generation appears in Fundamentally Challenged: Stories of Possible and Impossible Change, edited by Jeff Turner. This is a CD-ROM publication, with stories in .pdf format and MP3 audio.
Read Erin's fiction on the web:
Lost in the Dark'sSouthern Halloween Short Story Contest(First Place!) Even Those That Gone Away
Summer 2003 edition of Moondance Magazine.Three Sundresses and a Ballgown
The OUT Campaign
Links that will take you to places I really like...
