HA&L Biographical Sketch • Erin Soros
PLAY AUDIO VERSION: voice of Roxanna Bennett A settler from Vancouver, Erin Soros has published fiction and nonfiction in international publications. Her stories have been produced for the CBC and BBC as winners of the CBC Literary Award and the Commonwealth Award for the Short Story. Her essay “I Call This Institutionalized Rape,” in The Fiddlehead, was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Her poem “Weight” received the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. A new essay on community responses to mental health crises is forthcoming in The Puritan. Articles weaving psychoanalysis, philosophy, oral history, and autobiography appear in academic journals, with new work in Literatures of Madness and in Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness. Soros has been a visiting writer at four universities, most recently the University of Cambridge. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Read or Listen to
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