ERIN HALEY

Having put pen to paper for as long as she can remember, Erin Haley was also a dancer and dance instructor for over eight years. In addition to performing in numerous kick-lines in sub-zero weather on Thanksgiving mornings in Philadelphia parades, Erin also likes to think she brought a new level of drama to The Nutcracker Ballet with her rendition of the Mouse King. After retiring her mouse ears and sword, Erin focused on teaching dance to three through eighteen-year-olds where she, (to the delight of some parents and the alarm of others,) choreographed ballet numbers to the likes of Elvis’s “I Can’t Help (Falling in Love With You)” and modern routines to “Proud Mary”. While earning a B.F.A in Writing for Film and Television from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, she pretended to be a bohemian whenever possible by studying Art History in Italy and interning at the Cannes Film Festival. After graduation, she ventured to Hollywood where she juggled internships at production studios with working until the witching hours of the night at Disneyland. Now working at an above-the-line talent agency in Beverly Hills, Erin spends her lunch breaks window-shopping on Rodeo Drive and pretending she can afford the baubles on display at Tiffany & Co. In the rare moments that she is not working furiously on a middle-grade or young adult novel, (one that is most often steeped in history with traces of magical-realism), Erin also freelances as a story analyst and writes articles for CollegeBound Teen Magazine, Philadelphia Style Magazine and Times Philadelphia.