Erin Hourigan is an author/illustrator who lives on the Southern Oregon Coast with her scruffy partner and scruffier dog. She has been a bank teller, a traveler, a teacher, and always a storyteller. She is inspired by the natural beauty that surrounds her in the PNW as seen in her art for the When Seasons Come picture book series by Aimee Bisonette (Little Bigfoot Books). She also likes to write about big emotions that draw from her own experiences as she did in In the Blue (Little Brown Books for Young Readers), a 2023 Schneider Family Book Award Honor book. As a quiet kid with a vivid imagination, Erin loved to escape to the other worlds in stories and was drawn strongly to characters that she could identify with. She hopes to make books where kids can find and lose themselves, too.
Erin is represented by Eve Adler.
