Eirinie Carson is a Black British writer living in California. She is a mother of two children, Luka and Selah. A member of the Writers Grotto in San Francisco, Carson is a frequent contributor to Mother magazine, and her work has also appeared in LitHub, Mortal Mag, Electric Literature, The Sonora Review and others. She was the NEA Distinguished Fellow at the Hambidge Center and is a 2024 alum at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Carson contributes to her local paper, The Argus Courier, via a column, Eirinie Asks.
She mostly writes about motherhood, grief and relationships and her first book, The Dead Are Gods, was critically acclaimed by Oprah Daily, Nylon Magazine, Shondaland and The Washington Post as well as winning a Zibby Award. It was also named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2023. Carson is currently working on her first book of fiction, a maternal gothic story that challenges the notion of the types of mothers we want to be versus the ones we actually are.