Born and raised in southern California, Erin McGraw has spent most of her adult life living in and writing about the Midwest. Only in her most recent two novels has she gone back to her birth place, exploring the lives made possible by all that coastline and sunshine. She shares her life with her husband, the poet and essayist Andrew Hudgins, and their rotating cast of dogs. They divide their time between Columbus, Ohio, where she teaches in the MFA program at the Ohio State University, and Sewanee, Tennessee.