Like you, ERIN TRAHAN is a work-in-progress. As a reporter, critic, and educator specializing in independent film, she has been a regular contributor to WBUR (Boston’s NPR news station) and has also written for The Boston Globe, MovieMaker Magazine, Women’s Review of Books and other publications. For seven years she served as the editor for the online version of The Independent and spearheaded the preservation of the print magazine’s archive. As faculty at Emerson College, she has taught film and TV journalism and twice served as a fellow in the Engagement Lab’s Transforming Narratives for Environmental Justice initiative. She has also co-authored 11 Frommer’s Guides on Montreal, Quebec City, Boston, and their surrounds. On her literary days, she writes essays and poems and for many years read poetry submissions for AGNI. She released the documentary short “Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy” in late 2024 and has several other film projects in the works. She earned a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MFA in poetry from Bennington College. She lives with her family on Boston’s North Shore. If you run into her one day, she’ll show you where she grew up in Michigan by pointing to the back of her hand. And she’ll probably mention Madonna.
