Erin Merrill is an award winning writer from Maine. Born and raised in the state, she started deer hunting with her dad when she was 20. Since then she has expanded her adventures to include bear in the US and Canada, foraging, trapping, coyote hunting and increasing her knowledge of deer hunting. In 2021, Erin was successful in completing her Big Game Grand Slam, harvesting a bear, turkey, deer and moose in the same calendar year.
Erin has been interviewed across numerous podcasts and news stories about being a woman in a typically male-dominated field. To support girls and women having access to educational opportunities that could advance their hunting and outdoor recreational skills.
Promoting the outdoors is important to Erin. She sits on the Board of Directors for the New England Outdoor Writers Association and the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Erin is also prostaff for First Lite, OnX and Fit to Hunt. She writes monthly columns for the Maine Trust for Local News (including the Portland Press Herald, Lewiston Sun Journal, Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal), The Bangor Daily News and in the Northwoods Sporting Journal.
