Erica Spiller studied English and theater arts at Virginia Commonwealth University and Simpson College. She is a two-time winner of Tallgrass Theatre Company's Iowa Playwrights Workshop for her plays A Light that Burns and Again and Again, and Eventually. Some of her other published works include (M)other Dracula and Its Adaptations, Currency of the Body and Mind: A Quest for Agency in the Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington and Collaboration of Feminist and Postcolonial Discourses in the Plays of Aphra Behn and Caryl Churchill. Erica was raised in central Iowa, where she currently works in higher education, writes and volunteers as a resident lighting designer at a local theater company. She enjoys spending time with her wife, Lauren; their children, Camden and Austen; and the family's rescue dogs, Scout and Darcy.
