Erika Krouse is the author of several books, including Come Up and See Me Sometime, Contenders, and Tell Me Everything. Her short stories have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, Ploughshares, One Story, The Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, Story, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, and Shenandoah. She teaches and mentors for the Lighthouse Book Project at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver.