Lota Erinne is a Nigerian American writer and editor from Georgia. She currently works as an editorial assistant at Avery & TarcherPerigee, two imprints of Penguin Random House. Lota was awarded the 2019 Greer Marechal Memorial Prize in Fiction for her short story, “Cool Blue,” as well as two Fulbright grants to teach English in Spain from 2020–2022. She loves plants, crossword puzzles, fashion history, and walking along the river (any river).
Lota is available for developmental editing and copyediting of fiction and nonfiction for any age group. Her favorite genres to edit are fantasy and literary fiction, but she will happily apply her skills to any story that catches her eye.
Her poetry appears in or is forthcoming from the winnow, Moss Puppy Magazine, and zindabad.