Erin Saldin is the author of the young adult novels The Girls of No Return (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic, 2012), and The Flatliners’ Club (forthcoming from Simon Pulse/Simon and Schuster in 2017). Erin has been a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, West Africa and a bartender in New York City, and holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in fiction. She is the recipient of a Montana Artist’s Innovator Award from the Montana Arts Council. Her short stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in Fivechapters, Open City, The New York Times, The Best New American Voices, The Northwest Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Erin lives in Missoula, where she is a Lecturer in Creative Writing and the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana.