Erin Mayes

Biography

Erin Mayes is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work has been published in The Coachella Review, Cetera, Stonecrop Magazine, and Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Literature and Art. A former Steinbeck fellow in the MFA program at San Jose State University, Erin holds an MFA in creative writing and has worked as a journalist and a senior editor at Reed Magazine. She is currently writing her first novel—a science-fiction thriller.

Substack: @ErinMayes

Publications

Fiction

• June 2026 | “The Griefing” | Cetera Magazine
• December 2025 | “Ignition”  | The Coachella Review

Flash Nonfiction

• Spring 2025 | “Mrs. Murry, The Sex Bomb” | The Hofstra Journal of Literature & Art

Nonfiction

• Winter 2024 | “Penniless in Nowhere, Nevada” | Stonecrop Magazine