Erin Ergenbright


		Erin Ergenbright is a writer and writing teacher in Portland, Oregon. The co-author of The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook (with Thisbe Nissen), and a founder of the Loggernaut Reading Series, she earned her MFA at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, where she was a James Michener-Paul Engle

	fellow. Erin is the recipient of a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and residencies from Caldera Arts and Soapstone; her writing has appeared in The Believer Magazine, Tin House, Portland Monthly, The Oregonian, The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work and Pulling It All Together in Your Thirties (J.P. Tarcher), Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: On Cooking for One and Dining Alone (Riverhead Books), Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Paste Magazine, Oklahoma Review, Dislocate and elsewhere. Erin has taught writing and writing workshops at Marylhurst University, University of Iowa, Portland State University, Clark College, and at many elementary, middle and high schools in the Portland area. In summer 2009 she was the program manager of the Northwest Institute for Social Change, which forced her to stop hosting the weekly Portland Spelling Bee (but, happily, the Bee goes on). Currently, Erin teaches fiction at University of Portland and composition at Portland Community College.