Erin Soros

Erin Soros is a writer, theorist and oral historian. She worked for eleven years as a social advocate in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, first as a rape crisis counsellor then as a coordinator of literacy programs for marginalized youth, collaborating with First Nation and multicultural organizations to create intergenerational education linking oral and literate forms of storytelling. She has an MA from UBC, an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD from the University of East Anglia where she taught psychoanalysis, modern literature and human rights. Her essays weave narrative, psychoanalysis and continental philosophy to explore ethical and social crises. Her stories build from oral and archival history, exploring tensions and intimacies between immigrant and First Nation loggers. These works have been published in international journals and anthologies and produced for the CBC and BBC as winners of the CBC Literary Award and the Commonwealth Award for the Short Story. Soros has been a writer-in-residence at four universities, including Cambridge where her position as the Harper-Wood fellow of St. John’s College funded travel to research the oral history of Inuvialuit communities in Canada’s Western Arctic.