Gold Rush Writers

2019 Gold Rush Writers Conference

Erika Mailman

Erika Mailman is the author of four historical novels: The Witch's Trinity, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book which Khaled Hosseini called "gripping"; Woman of Ill Fame, which is about a Gold Rush prostitute; House of Bellaver, which is a literary ghost story set in Oakland; and The Murderer's Maid: a Lizzie Borden Novel.

Mailman holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona, has been a Yaddo fellow and served as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
Her website is www.erikamailman.com . She also writes Y.A. fiction under the name Lynn Carthage, with a neo-Gothic trilogy published by Kensington. www.lynncarthage.com.

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Woman of Ill Fame	Witches Trinity
House of Bellaver	Murder's Maid	Oakland Hills