Erin Mizrahi is a writer, Pushcart nominee, scholar, teacher, curator and editor-in-chief of the multimedia literary and arts journal, Cobra Milk.

Raised in the San Fernando Valley with a conscientious detour in Santa Cruz, Erin now splits her time between Los Angeles and New York. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in Literature, Media and Culture from the University of Southern California and an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. Erin has taught at Hunter College, New York University, Los Angeles, Brooklyn College, Fordham University, and USC.

Erin has held fellowships with Asylum Arts, The Institute for Jewish Creativity, The Shoah Foundation, and was a finalist for the 2020 Brooklyn Poets Hamptons Fellowship. While at the Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Erin studied the complexity of silences in genocide testimony. Their work is interdisciplinary, drawing on visual culture, literature, technology, pop culture, and activism, centering themes of trauma, language, performance, and memory. ​ Their writing has appeared in Ginger Zine, Yes Poetry, Maudlin House, Anti-Heroin Chic, the Ben Yehuda Press anthology, "Strange Fire: Jewish Voices from the Pandemic, and elsewhere.

In addition to running the literary magazine, Cobra Milk, Erin is Co-Founder and Director of the Cobra Milk Reading Series, a monthly reading and music series featuring emerging and established voices. Erin also curates artist collaborations under the name Midnight Babka.