On Masking
ERIN SCOTT
On Masking is for everyone and anyone who has entered a room and stopped breathing, for anyone who fears parties, for anyone who loves anyone who would rather count the letters in words on street signs than mingle with peers, for anyone who regularly forces a sob into a laugh. Scott’s essay moves me, worries me, and brings me to tears.
— NORAH BOWMAN, author of My Eyes are Fuses (Caitlin Press)
published August 2026 in a print run of 100 copies
ISBN 978-1-997722-05-2
Erin Scott (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar who works in time-based mediums, including poetry, performance, and video/audio. Erin is a founding member of Inspired Word Café, a literary arts nonprofit. With publications and performances across forms, they have made spoken word albums, books, exhibitions, drag performances, Fringe shows, critical essays, and more. Erin holds an MFA and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Digital Arts and Humanities where she makes videopoems and writes about Scottish Gaelic, identity, and belonging. Erin lives in Rutland, on the unceded territories of the syilx peoples of the Okanagan Nation Alliance, with her soon-to-be husband and four children.