Erin Emily Ann Vance is the author of four previous poetry chapbooks and a novel, Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers (Stonehouse Publishing). She holds a Masters Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary and is pursuing a Masters Degree in Irish Folklore and Ethnology at University College Dublin. Vance is an alumna of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast and The Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity. She lives in Dublin.