Erin Kate Ryan is the author of QUANTUM GIRL THEORY (Random House, 2022).

Leaning against her basement wall are degrees from Boston University School of Law and the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her fiction has been published in hundreds of real and imaginary journals, such as Glimmer Train, Conjunctions, and The Normal School. Her fiction has been honored with a Pushcart nomination, fellowships and grants from the Vermont Studio Center, Millay Colony, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, Hinge Springboard for the Arts, Wildacres, and the Dickinson House (Belgium). She is a James Jones First Novel Fellow, a McKnight Fellow, and recipient of a Minnesota Emerging Writers' grant, multiple Minnesota State Arts Board Artist's Initiative grants, and scholarships to the Sewanee and BreadLoaf Writers' Conferences. She was a 2019 Alumni Fiction Fellow at Bennington College.

Erin Kate lives in a decaying Scooby Doo mansion in the Hudson Valley, where she and her partner are working to build a small residency/refuge for queer & trans artists and scholars.

With writer Allison Wyss, Erin Kate founded the Minneapolis Storytelling Workshop, a project that empowers deep-thinking readers and viewers to do close readings of television shows through free email lessons and occasional events. From time to time, Erin Kate also runs large-scale art/life overlap projects, such as Atlas 2021 and her ongoing experiential fictions.

She is represented by Dorian Karchmar of William Morris Endeavors.

For over ten years, Erin Kate has consulted for social justice nonprofits on matters related to fundraising, grant programming, board development, and organizational development.