A WRITER'S LIFE ERIN STEELE

How do addiction and memoir writing intersect? In this episode, we sit down with Erin Steele, author of Sunrise Over Half-Built Houses, as she shares how her eclectic upbringing, personal battles, and vivid memories shaped her writing journey. Erin reflects on identity, compassion, and the stigma of addiction, offering a fresh perspective on trauma, vulnerability, and the cycles of life choices. She opens up about the delicate balance of honesty and privacy in memoir writing, revealing the cathartic power of storytelling to transform isolation into connection. Erin Steele is a writer, low-key philosopher and insatiably curious explorer of life. She writes On Being Human on Substack, is a 2022 Writing by Writersfellow and has been published in Human Parts by Medium. She currently lives in Kelowna, BC, Canada, where she studies all limbs of yoga, runs long distances on trails and nerds out on nature—particularly when the arrowleaf balsamroot explodes the hills yellow. Sunrise over Half-Built Houses is her first book. https://www.instagram.com/erinsteelewrites/ https://caitlinpress.com/Contributors/S/Steele-Erin https://erinsteele.com Send us a text Support the show