Erica McKeen is a Canadian fiction writer. She is the author of two novels, Tear (Invisible Publishing, 2022) and Cicada Summer (W. W. Norton & Co., 2024). Her work has been longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize, won the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, been chosen as a finalist for the ReLit Awards, and been selected as a Globe and Mail best book. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including Existere, PRISM international, and The Dalhousie Review. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.