Erin Sharkey is a writer and cultural producer based in Minneapolis. She is the co-founder, with Junauda Petrus, of an experimental arts production company called Free Black Dirt. Erin has been a Bell Museum Artist-in-Residence, Loft Mentor Series mentee, VONA fellow, Jerome Travel and Study, MN State Arts Board and MRAC Next Step Fund grantee, and Givens Foundation fellow. Her work has appeared in Brooklyn Quarterly, Paper Darts and Walker Sightlines and Primer Magazines and she is editing A Darker Wilderness, a forthcoming anthology of Black nature writing for Milkweed Editions. Erin teaches with Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.