I write fiction and what John McPhee called the “literature of fact,” aka creative nonfiction.  I’m on the home stretch of a novel that draws on my time in Latin America: the story of a woman’s journey to a foreign but familiar land, the remote Costa Rican beach town where she spent summers as a girl. Fleeing the grief of losing her mother and the outrage of her disinheritance, she is desperate to track down the man claiming to be her father, and the land he says will be hers.

With a previous novel I won the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society prize (Oscar Hijuelos was the judge). I’ve had excerpts and stories published in literary journals like FICTION, and have been awarded fellowships to Hedgebrook, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and HippoCamp.

Email me at erinnow [at] gmail.com

Photo of bird singing by David Webster Smith.