Erika Anderson's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Gawker, Creative Nonfiction, Buzzfeed Books, Midnight Breakfast, and has been twice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches for the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop.
I was four years old when my mother taught me to lie. There were certain instances, she explained, when lying was acceptable, when it wasn’t even lying, really.