Erin Trahan is a writer and editor specializing in film and travel. She has written about movies for WBUR, The Boston Globe, MovieMaker Magazine, NewEnglandFilm.com, and elsewhere and has co-authored five Frommer’s Guides to Montreal and Quebec City. As the editor of The Independent, an online magazine about film, and its related books on filmmaking, she often serves on film festival panels and juries. She has also moderated several seasons of the all-documentary series The DocYard. By night, she writes poems and essays and reads poetry submissions for AGNI. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars. (updated 10/2014)