Errol “E.R.” Anderson (he/him) is the Executive Director of Charis Circle, the nonprofit programming arm of Charis Books and More, the South’s oldest independent feminist bookstore. In 2019, E.R. spearheaded a once-in-a-lifetime partnership and move to Agnes Scott College. Under E.R.’s leadership Charis Circle hosts more than 275 community and author events each year.
In his day-to-day work, E.R. supports emerging and established writers and facilitates community education groups, which use writing, listening, and collective action as a tool for justice and self-knowledge. E.R. helps build grassroots strategy for fighting anti-trans legislation in Georgia and across the South. He is a semi-regular guest professor in Agnes Scott College’s Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. E.R. served on the board of the LGBT Institute at the Civil and Human Rights, The Decatur Book Festival’s Programming Board, The Editorial Advisory Board of Atlanta Magazine, Georgia Shares, and Project Affirm.
E.R. was honored by the Human Rights Campaign with the Leon Allen and Winston Johnson Community Leadership Award in 2013 and as the representative of Charis Circle as an Atlanta Pride Marshall in 2014. He was a previous fellow at Hambidge in 2009, and a Lambda Literary Emerging Writer in 2011.