Erin Connal is an Australian born writer who has lived half of her life in the United States. She was awarded a 2022 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, was shortlisted for the 2021 Disquiet Literary Contest and was a runner up in the 2021 Northwest Review Fiction Contest. Her fiction appears in Virginia Quarterly Review, Northwest Review and Best Debut Short Stories 2022. Erin received her MFA at NYU and is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.