Erin Kathryn Conway was born on December 13, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois. She'd be the third of three children born to Kathryn and Sean Conway, right after a rebellious older brother and a barely older sister. Her childhood was a rather normal and happy one, part of a tight knit family that were usually found doing something together every weekend. From birth, it seems, Erin had quite the attachment to her father and grew up adoring and idolizing the man. It was on his lap as a pigtailed toddler that she'd be introduced to her first hockey game on tv and one of the things the two of them would bond over for time to come. Sean, a Boston native who had moved out to Chicago after getting into some trouble back home, was a die hard Bruins fan and so it meant Erin would be one by default despite being born and raised in Blackhawk territory. Growing up there was little of more importance to her than attending games with her dad, yelling at the tv with him, and when the time came; getting on the ice herself. There were conditions, however, and Kathryn made it very clear that hockey was no sport for any daughter of hers so to Sean the most logical and next best thing was figure skating.

The next few years of her life were spent on the ice, in competition after competition and loving every second of it despite juggling skating and school and at times finding herself falling asleep in the middle of class or too tired to quickly learn her routines. While most girls had dance moms she had a skate dad who never missed a single practice and cheered the loudest, always prepared to reward her with a brownie sundae regardless of her winning or losing. Erin had a purpose, high aspirations, and a perfect family. At 14 her entire world was turned upside down and suddenly the sun began to shine a little less brighter for Erin Conway.

That year her parents split up. The next year the divorce was finalized and by then she was living in a Manhattan apartment with her mom and two siblings. There was a lot of confusion on Erin's part and she tried to keep her father on the pedestal she'd had him on since she was a child but things just didn't seem right and it would take some time for clarity. For some time there was a lot of shuffling back and forth from Chicago to New York for Erin and her siblings before she completely gave up on having a semi normal relationship with her father. It was at that time that the kids would learn of their father's affair as the reason for the divorce and would send Erin down a spiral of anger. He was quick to form a new family and that was something she'd hold against him for years to come. Her high school years were spent dwelling in her angst, skipping school, and abandoning the things that were once important to her. Barely graduating from high school she decided to skip college and went straight to work, finding boring jobs in retail and fast food which she'd quit a day or two in. Eventually she'd move in with a guy she barely knew and had slept with a handful of times, desperate for her independence.

Queens had now become her new home and once that failed experiment of a relationship was over, she found herself couch surfing with not a dime to her name and no clear idea of what to do with her life. It was a last act to reconnect with his daughter that had Sean Conway reach out and try to be the father figure Erin had been lacking for the past few years and he got her back on her feet. He got her a place to live, supported her until she found a job as a bartender in a little bar in Queens, and pushed her back into the thing she loved the most and had abandoned. She continues to hold the bartending job part time while working as a licensed USFSA figure skating instructor. Her focus is on basic skills, ages 1-8, and has had a pretty good deal of success as a coach. In the future she hopes to move up to a higher age range and a more competitive level but for now there are still quite a few things she needs to figure out on a personal level first. Her days of constant anger and self pity are long behind her and she tries her hardest to maintain a relationship with both her parents, understanding things a little better with age and the passing of time. Erin's life isn't perfect, hadn't ever been and won't ever be, but it can come close to something like it and that she aims for with every waking day.