Inspired by experience, current events and generalized worry, Erika Raskin is a writer and activist who views sharing concerns a civic responsibility. Her latest novel, Allegiance, tackles life on a white nationalist compound; the broader threat of fascism to the country as a whole; and the arguable lengths a woman will go to ensure her grandkids won't grow up in a dictatorship. Best Intentions is a medical thriller in which malpractice is calcified into the system itself; Close asks whether family therapy should really be a televised spectator sport. Her work has been recognized by the Library of Virginia, the Virginia Commission on the Arts, Glimmertrain, the Reynolds Price Competition, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the fiction editor of Streetlight Magazine and has written articles and print and essays for the radio. A grandmother, she lives in the mountains with her husband and probably-gifted dog.

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