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Ervin’s debut novel Burning Down George Orwell’s House was published in 2015 by Soho Press. Parisian publishing house Éd Joelle Losfeld/Gallimard released the novel's French translation. in 2016.

Ervin holds a BA in Philosophy and Religion (Goucher College), an MS in English (Illinois State University) and MFA in Fiction (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). He Served as the inaugural Southern Review Resident Scholar at Louisiana State University. He was previously the Kratz Writer-in-Residence at Goucher College and a 2016-2017 Digital Studies Fellow at Rutgers University-Camden. He teaches part-time for the Honors Program and the MFA program in creative writing at Temple University as well as for the Interactive Games and Media department at Rochester Institute of Technology.

His story “The Light of Two Million Stars” in Conjunctions was listed among the “distinguished submissions” in Best American Short Stories 2010, edited by Richard Russo.

His first book was a collection of novellas, Extraordinary Renditions, published in 2010. Publisher’s Weekly included Extraordinary Renditions on its list of the “Best Books of 2010.” That book was a long-list finalist for The Story Prize

As a fiction writer, his short stories have appeared in the literary journals Conjunctions, Fiction International, The Southern Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Monkeybicycle and Golden Handcuffs Review. His fiction has been included in the anthologies Chicago Noir (2005), Mythtym (2008), Topograph (2010), and Gigantic Worlds (2014).

Andrew Ervin (1971) is an American writer whose debut 2010 novella collection Extraordinary Renditions (Coffee House Press) was selected by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2010. His 2015 debut novel Burning Down George Orwell’s House (Soho Press) was listed as an Editor’s Choice in the New York Times Book Review. He currently lives in Philadelphia.

His first book-length work of criticism Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World, a “cultural and experiential history of video games, from Tennis for Two (1958) to Minecraft and beyond, drawing on art criticism and interviews with seminal game creators” was published by Basic Books in May 2017.