Erin Saldin is the author of The Girls of No Return and The Dead Enders. Erin has lived in West Africa, Brooklyn, and a cabin off the grid in remote Klamath mountains of Oregon. She holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, and her short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Best New American Voices, and Gulf Coast, among others. Erin lives in Missoula, Montana, with her partner, two daughters, and a dog, and she teaches at the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana.