Erin Hoffman

Erin Hoffman is a writer and video game designer from northern California. Born in San Diego, she began writing at a young age, and has designed video games reaching millions of players for Taldren Inc, 1st Playable Productions, HumaNature Studios, Dreamworks, and Zynga. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Electric Velocipede, Asimov's Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Sword of Fire and Sea: The Chaos Knight, Book One is her debut fantasy novel from Pyr Books. She is also an activist for the rights of game developers, with her essay "EA: The Human Story" covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and LA Times, and appearing in The Best Software Writing I, edited by Joel Spolsky. She serves on the board of the International Game Developers Association and lives with her husband, an unruly dachshund, and two cantankerous parrots in Richmond, California.