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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 (2024), a limited series documentary hosted by New York Times best-selling author Jeanne Marie Laskas. Erin’s independent radio and podcast work has been featured on KCRW’s UnFictional, WHYY’s The Pulse, and Serendipity. She won a Sarah Lawrence College International Audio Fiction award for her first audio drama 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 and is currently working with Narduli Studio to create a permanent sound installation for the new terminal at the Pittsburgh International Airport, scheduled to open in 2025.

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.