Hi, I'm Erin Somers, a writer, reporter, and book critic based in the Hudson Valley. My fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Esquire, GQ, The Nation, The New Republic, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. My first novel, Stay Up With Hugo Best (2019), was a Vogue Magazine Best Book of the Year.  

My second novel, The Ten Year Affair, will be published by Simon & Schuster on October 21, 2025, and is available for preorder below.