Erin Northern lives and plays in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was her city’s representative for the 2009 Women of the World Poetry Slam Championship and will be a showcase poet at the 2011 Atlanta Queer Literacy Festival. Her work has been published in Adobe Walls 2: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry and Feminism Now! Erin is a founding co-organizer of OUTSpoken, Albuquerque’s first quarterly Queer Poetry Slam and Open-Mic. She also creates safe spaces for queer voices by facilitating writing workshops for youth in NM schools and community organizations. Erin enjoys hiking, asking questions, and teaching fifth grade.






Click here to listen to Erin Northern performing "Holding Hands"

Click here to listen to Erin Northern performing "How Do We Tell Them It Gets Better"