Erin Wiegand is a freelance editor, writer, German translator, and transcriptionist living in Oakland, California. She is the former managing editor of LiP Magazine, an award-winning journal of radical politics, culture, sex, and humor. Her writing has appeared in several magazines, including LiP and In These Times, and in two anthologies: Tipping the Sacred Cow (a LiP anthology) and In the Beginning (from the editors of mental_floss).