Erin Shaw

 

Name: Erin Elizabeth Shaw

Age: 33

Location: Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Favorite Novels: Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite, The Rising and A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene, Genital Grinder by Ryan Harding, Come Closer by Sara Gran, Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo, The Vampire Chronicles and the Tales of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice, The Help by Katherine Stockett, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella, The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III, The Long Walk and The Stand by Stephen King, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, Blood Crazy by Simon Clark, A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore, Twilight by William Gay, Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, 1984 by George Orwell, A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Magus by John Fowles, Five Smooth Stones by Anne Fairbairn, Penpal by Dathan Auerbach.

Favorite Authors: Brian Keene, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ryan Harding, Christopher Moore, Anne Rice.

Bio: Erin Shaw is an investigative journalist for hire. Currently she works for CrimeWatch Canada magazine. She has worked as a book reviewer and editor, independent bookseller and procurer, crisis line counselor, financial journalist, and a library assistant. She is also a writer of gruesome horror fiction herself and has a manuscript making the rounds in the publishing jungle as we speak.

She studied sociology and classics at the University of Alberta many years ago and strongly considered going to medical school but couldn’t due to a phobia of dead bodies. She also deathly fears cotton. Nevertheless she is an avid consumer of all things horrific and splattery; the scarier and bloodier and more F*cked up the better. She is a sucker for found footage horror films, Rob Zombie films and zombie films and books in general. Her obsessions include: graveyards, purses, etiquette books, rock hunting, death metal, proving snuff films exist(no luck yet),the opera, used bookstores, tattoos, zumba, creepypastas, urban legends, yoga, cats, crossword puzzles and cupcakes.

Contact: email: erinsxc@hotmail.com