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About Erin Bowman

Erin is a personal name taken from the Hiberno-English word for Ireland, originating from the Irish word "Éirinn". "Éirinn" is the dative case of the Irish word for Ireland, "Éire", genitive "Éireann", the dative being used in prepositional phrases such as "go hÉirinn" "to Ireland", "in Éirinn" "in Ireland", "ó Éirinn" "from Ireland".

The dative has replaced the nominative in a few regional Irish dialects (particularly Galway-Connemara and Waterford). Poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists used Erin in English as a romantic name for Ireland. Often, "Erin's Isle" was used. In this context, along with Hibernia, Erin is the name given to the female personification of Ireland, but the name was rarely used as a given name, probably because no saints, queens, or literary figures were ever called Erin.

According to Irish mythology and folklore, the name was originally given to the island by the Milesians after the goddess Ériu.

Erin Bowman writes about Children's fiction, Fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Science fiction, and Resistance to Government. Their best-known work is Taken.

On FindMyTBR we track 7 books by Erin Bowman, 7 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Contagion (Contagion, #1), Dustborn, and Dustborn: A Young Adult Post-Apocalyptic Western Where Rescuing Family Means Trusting No One and Decoding Secrets. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.