ERIN ANDERSON is a writer, audio producer, and multimedia artist based in Pittsburgh. She is the co-creator and producer of the Audacy Original Podcast Cement City, a limited series documentary hosted by veteran magazine writer and best-selling author Jeanne Marie Laskas — named one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Podcasts of 2024. Erin’s independent radio and podcast work has been featured on KCRW’s UnFictional, WHYY’s The Pulse, and Serendipity. She received a Sarah Lawrence College International Audio Fiction award for her audio drama, Our Time Is Up, in 2016. Erin’s multimedia installations and artworks have appeared in a variety of venues, including Seattle’s Jack Straw New Media Gallery and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. She received her first public art commission in 2019.
Erin is a professor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches narrative audio production and multimedia nonfiction in the undergraduate and MFA programs and as affiliated faculty in Film and Media Studies. She has a Ph.D. in Critical and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.