Erin writes about art, artists, nature, land use, counterculture, communes, alternative education and her encounters with the physical and ethereal world. Her essays, curatorial texts, and artist profiles have been published by University of Minnesota, University of Houston, a variety of magazines and small presses. She is the author of two books, “The Rites of Land” and “Trails Across the Bighorns.”

Seeing New Mountains
an exhibition essay for Lee Saloutos
presented by Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, NV, August 2022

Trails Across the Bighorns
an exploration of northern Wyoming
self-published, 2020

Void with a View: a visit with Paul O’Connor
a catalog essay for Paul O’Connor Sculpture 2017-2019
published by Auro Mesa Press, Taos, 2020

How to See the Unseen
a catalog essay for Mokha Laget: Spatial Luminescence
published by Apache Plume Press, Santa Fe, 2019

The Rites of Land
an exploration of Mendocino County, California
self-published, 2018

Sharing Places, Building Dreams: How One Commune Led to Another (and Another)
a catalog essay for Radical: 50 Years of Libre Intentional Artist Community
published by Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 2018

Golden Moments: A Visit with Artist Alexis Elton
an artist profile for Edible, Santa Fe, February 2016

Atomic Surplus
curatorial catalog essay for the exhibition catalog
published by Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, 2013

Architecture on Film: Drop City
programme notes for The Architecture Foundation, London, July 2013

Power: Gridlocked
essay contributed to Machine Wilderness: 18th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Sbarge, Suzanne and Andrea Polli, eds.
published by Radius Books, Santa Fe, 2012

How to Build a Commune: Drop City’s Influence on the Southwestern Commune Movement
essay contributed to West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977, Auther, Elissa and Adam Lerner, eds.
published by University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2011

Fort-Building or the Path to Radical Change
curatorial catalog essay for Worlds Outside This One
published by 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, 2011

How to Start with Nothing
essay contributed to Phonebook3, co-written with Nina Elder and Nancy Zastudil, Dwyer, Bryce, ed.
published by InCubate, Chicago, 2011

What's a Campfire?
catalog contribution to Proposals for a Socialist Colony, Skydive Office of Cultural Affairs, ed.
published by Skydive, Houston, 2010

The Teacher Was the Sixties
essay contributed to Proximity Magazine: Education as Art, Chicago, vol. 8, Winter 2010

PLAND: Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation
essay co-written with Nina Elder and Nancy Zastudil
contributed to Proximity Magazine: Catalog of Strategies, Chicago, vol. 7, Spring 2010

Red Legacy:
a collection of notes on the possible intersections between commune building, land use, and art practice
sole writer of online blog, 2009-2010

All Eyes on Houston
essay contributed to On the Banks of the Bayou City: The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Houston, Hooper, Rachel and Nancy Zastudil, eds.
published by University of Houston Press, 2009

973 Possibilities and How to Make Sense of It?
curatorial catalog essay for The Institute for Social Research: 90 Days on Communal Living
published by Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, 2008

The San Francisco World's Fair of 2007
curatorial contribution to exhibition catalog, edited Bradley, Will, et al.
published by California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2007