Erin O’Rourke can be described in many ways: novelist, teacher, game-player, star-gazer, picture-framer, dancer, and counter of chickens long before they hatch. Erin lives in the American southwest, in the company of cookbooks, fantasy roleplaying games, the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and a dog named Nadine.

A fascination with both shoes and rock-n’-roll led to the creation of Fugitive Shoes, though Erin can neither play the guitar nor walk with any grace in three-inch heels.

Author's Bio as Appearing in Seeing Pink

Erin’s parents are a poet and a hunter—one a pacifist, the other a Marine veteran of Vietnam. Perhaps as a result of this contradiction, Erin’s been unable to find any vocation satisfying outside of writing. It is the only activity capable of containing the heart’s opposing forces.

Erin’s first birthday was spent in the Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children. Since then, Erin has waited tables, fought grass fires, protested the death penalty, touched the Rosetta Stone, and received a letter from Ray Bradbury. Somewhere along the way Erin picked up a few college degrees which have yet to be put to practical use.

Currently a full-time volunteer with the AmeriCorps program, Erin teaches language-arts skills to the youth of the Otoe-Missouria tribe in Red Rock, Oklahoma. Erin has also been seen charting the paths of barn swallows and calculating the escape velocity of fictional planets.