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Erin Slaughter is the author of the memoir The Dead Dad Diaries (Autofocus Books, 2025), the short story collection A Manual for How to Love Us (Harper Perennial, 2023), and two books of poetry: The Sorrow Festival (Clash Books, 2022) and I Will Tell This Story to the Sun Until You Remember That You Are the Sun (New Rivers Press, 2019). Originally from Texas, she holds and MFA from Western Kentucky University and a PhD from Florida State University. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Coastal Carolina University.

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	A Manual for How to Love Us 3.47 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Dad Diaries 4.88 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Will Tell This Story to the Sun Until You Remember That You Are the Sun 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sorrow Festival 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passages North No. 40 by Jennifer A. Howard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christine G. Addams, Colette Arrand (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mimesis (Vestiges 03) by Jared Daniel Fagen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lindsay Ahl (Contributor), Alexis Almeida (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pulp Literature Issue 17 Winter 2018 by J.M. Landels (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Mel Anastasiou (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Susan Pieters (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lavender Bluegrass: LGBT Writers of the South by Erin Slaughter (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Clinton Craig (Editor), Will Hollis (Editor) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SRPR, Spoon River Poetry Review, 44.1 Summer, 2019 by Spoon River Poetry Review, Selva Casal (Contributor), Jeannine M. Pitas (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Erin Slaughter and 2 other people liked Laura Donovan's review of The Dead Dad Diaries: "A lot of people don’t know the uniquely awful experience of losing your dad as a high school senior in an incredibly dramatic way. I do. My dad died of cancer the morning of my senior prom (which I still attended), and this part of my history changed " Read more of this review »
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