Erin Somers's writing has appeared innbsp;The New Yorker, Tin Housenbsp;Open Bar, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, McSweeney's, the Cincinnati Review, and many other publications. She holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire and was a 2016 NYC Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow and a 2016 Millay Colony resident. She lives in Beacon, New York with her husband and daughter. Stay Up with Hugo Best is her first novel.