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Erin Cashier
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Excerpt
She looked like she had come down off of one of the temple's painted walls. I would have written her off as a gift from my last stupor, but her cotton clothes, dyed black against the sun, were a month's wear away from being frayed in places. My hallucinations had, thus far, not bothered to be economically precise.
Bio
Erin Cashier grew up in San Antonio, Texas. In a bizarre blessing, no one knew that she was nearsighted until she was nine. By then, the damage was done: between the hot summers and her inability to see past her own nose, she spent most of her time indoors, reading books. After a childhood of reading Narnia, a middle school of reading Dragonlance, and a high school of reading The Odyssey, she went off to college with every intention of becoming a doctor to afford her future writing habit.
Life intervened with Erin's medical pursuits, and she ended up in California. Today she works as a registered nurse at a burn ward in the Bay Area. Erin lives in the redwoods above Santa Cruz with a boyfriend and a cat. She also collects Disney villain snow globes and spends most of her free time either writing or staring out of windows thinking about writing. The topics she most enjoys musing over include the nature of humanity, alchemical symbology in relation to Jungian psychology, insects, comparative religions, how best to encourage hope in our future, and the sudden popularity of zombies. She attended Clarion West in 2007.
Publications
"Maze" is up at Fishnet Magazine.
My 1st place Winter 2007 Writers of the Future story, "Cruciger," will be featured in their anthology later this summer.
Writing Description
Weird. I started off wanting to write straight fantasy, but I find myself in the far future science fiction writing-mines much more frequently these days.
Goals
I want to write 5000 words a week during the Write-a-thon. I hope these will be on my novel-in-progress, but a short or two might also count along the way. Part of the Write-a-thon will be over my Writers of the Future workshop and Worldcon trips, so I'll have to stay especially focused to make my goals.
I'd like to get $300 total through a combination of blog-begging and astounding people with my sticktoitiveness.
