Erin Zimmerman, Ph.D., joins the UNLV Writing Center after a 4-year stint working at the American University of Beirut as an assistant professor in the English Department and director of the Writing Center and Writing in the Disciplines Program. Prior to those Mediterranean Sea views, she was in the Midwest cornfields getting her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University.

Originally, she hails from North Carolina, as evident from her slight southern twang, where she got her M.A. in English at Appalachian State University and B.A. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.