Erin Bartnett received her Masters in Modern & Contemporary Literature from the University of Virginia, and her Bachelors in English Literature with a concentration in Women's Literature from Rutgers University, summa cum laude. She has taught and supported writing programs for students from kindergarten up through college.
She is currently earning her MFA in the Iowa Writers' Workshop for Fiction and is the associate fiction editor for Electric Literature. She specializes in teaching writing composition, the college essay, and literary analysis.