Erin Sil­ver has been writ­ing pro­fes­sion­al­ly for near­ly 20 years. Her work has appeared in every­thing from The Wash­ing­ton Post and The Globe and Mail to Harper’s Bazaar and Good House­keep­ing. She has a post­grad­u­ate jour­nal­ism degree from Ryer­son Uni­ver­si­ty and an MFA in Cre­ative Non­fic­tion from King’s Col­lege. She lives in Toronto.