"A born writer… she’s also a synesthete, whose mixed-up senses serve as a gateway to multiple creative mediums." – Westword
I spent a glorious five days exploring my synesthesia at the Fort Collins music incubator The Music District. Typically their artists-in-residency are musicians, but since my teenage memoirs feature a lot of music writing, I got in on a technicality. It was the first time in over five years I've sat in a room alone, … Continue reading The Music District Residency
From the memoirs of a teenage degenerate: CHAPTER 2: BATHROOM GRAFFITI BEAU Soundtrack: “London Dungeon” by the Misfits If you’re the wrong kind of guy, the best kind of marketing to attract the bad kind of girl is having your name scrawled in bathroom graffiti. When I was 16, Tana, Dar and I went to … Continue reading Glory Guitars: Memoirs of a Teen Degenerate
Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. ~Gwendolyn Bennett Tintabula is a story of sensory delight and overstimulation, exploring the moment when rapture turns to derangement. A modern Alice in Wonderland for the neurodivergent set, the novel follows a young woman with Sensory Processing Disorder on her odyssey through the dream world, navigating the twists and … Continue reading Tintabula, a bedtime novel
I'm in goth heaven.
For six years, I've done PR and penned the Weekly Mix for Illegal Pete's. It all began when I was doing music publicity for a record label, and gave a round-table talk on PR for Ben Desoto's "The Conversation" music industry shindig at Forest Room 5. There was a guy in the audience asking a … Continue reading Illegal Pete’s
It was wild to watch my good friend Ricardo Baca become the nation's first Marijuana Editor at The Denver Post, a move which was initially met with excitement, skepticism and plenty of stoner jokes. He went on the national TV circuit, appearing on The Colbert Report and The View, assuring them all that he was … Continue reading Grasslands Content Agency
...And why it's really, really important. Here's an explainer about my strangely titled job, and my love letter to all who sacrifice for their music. Read It In Westword
Thanks to Susan Froyd and Westword for featuring me as a Colorado creative! In the interview, I talk about synesthesia, Bill Murray, and being a creative who was temporarily displaced from Nu Denver.
In honor of 303 Day, I was featured in 303 Magazine talking about my favorite things about Colorado. This list is a great way to celebrate our state and also learn about the creatives making art inside of it! Speaking of talented creatives, my featured photo is by Amanda Piela. Check It Out
I was in the New York Times' investigative piece on members of the media whose social media accounts were impostered. It was pretty chilling to get the call from a New York Times reporter telling me that someone had created a Twitter account in my name and was Tweeting out spam and porn! But I … Continue reading On Social Media, Lax Enforcement Lets Impostor Accounts Thrive
Erin K. Barnes 