Short, sweet, & in third person:

Erin was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City. She “read” her first book at four months, according to family legend, and it’s been impossible to pry her away from a good book since. After she exhausted her local library’s shelves of everything young adult and fantasy, she started writing her own novels. Years and writing workshops later, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. She is a self-proclaimed nerd who loves to ski and is determined to make the perfect gluten-free cookie. Erin lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and cat. Erin is also a member of the SCBWI.

Slightly longer & more rambling in first person:

My name is Erin. I have a complex about my first name, which is why on the internets I am often found as E. F. Danehy. Though honestly I don’t mind being called Erin. (I pronounce it “Errr-in,” though I don’t mind if you call me “Air-in.” Just not “Aaron.” See? I have a complex.)

I decided to write novels for children and young adults when I was eleven or twelve, after a childhood of various career avowals. (Singer! Actress! Artist! Disney animator!) As a writer, I told myself, I could be creative while keeping track of all the stories I’d been playing out with my toys (and considering how complicated their plotlines were getting, this was essential). I wrote (some terrible, some decent) stories and novels all through middle and high school for myself (in between homework assignments) and for actual writing workshops and classes. In college I majored in writing (and English, because I deeply love theory and research papers) and was so obsessed with writing genre novels (both words being anathema at the student level!), I maintained my own projects on the side while writing professor-approved stories for my classes. It seemed to worked out well considering I graduated both sane and full of experience.

Now that I’m a Real Grown-Up, I spend [most of] my days writing and working toward being published. It’s the best and only thing I could ever imagine myself doing.