Erin L. McCormack

Occupation: Writer/ Teacher

Family: Married to Donald; two sons at home

Location: Outside Boston, MA, United States

 
About Me:  French Canadian/Irish background, married to an Armenian, big fan of the melting pot. Raised in New England; theater/literature major at UC/Santa Cruz; three years in educational software company, New York City; Harvard Graduate School of Education; many years teaching literature and composition to community college students. Currently writing fiction, watching my boys play hockey, keeping up with the grandfolks, travel, Native American drumming and yoga. Lover of nature — there’s always room for animal characters in my stories!
I'm one of seventy first cousins, which makes me related to characters of all kinds, many that look like me, quite a few with colorful life stories, most with good hearts.

 
Interested in writing about cultural and race relations, and the anxiety and insights of social mobility. Have completed drafts of two novels: Blue Eyes in Black Wonderland, an Alice in Wonderland story set on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where a young white woman finds what it's like to be a minority working at a hotel/restaurant with a predominantly black staff; also, Spanish Soap Operas, a more lighthearted look at the soap opera like lives of three young women in New York City in the mid-80's — until cocaine and violence threaten their friendships.  Dovetails is a collection of five novellas, each about the intersection of two lives over one compelling problem such as abortion or the Vietnam War. "Out of the Cold" is a collection of twelve contemporary short stories, based primarily in the American Northeast.

About Shakira (barbie): She's my girl; my current alter ego. Love everything about her: cross-cultural, cross-musical; writes her own songs; dances barefoot on stage - have you seen the girl belly dance? A wonder to behold.  She calls her own shots and has refused to get a boob job. Wholesome AND sexy; a curlyhead.  Mainly, she radiates joy.