The woman
behind the words.

Erin Dohan is an accounting controller, writer, wife, and mother based in the western suburbs of Chicago. At 27, on May 29, 2019, she survived a ruptured brain aneurysm — an event that fundamentally transformed her life trajectory. What followed were five years of relentless medical crises: miscarriage, emergency abortion, infertility, complicated pregnancy, postpartum complications, ovarian torsion, and the removal of both ovaries.

Through it all, Erin did what many women are quietly taught to do: she kept going. She managed a career, built a family, and showed up for everyone around her. What she didn't do — until she finally couldn't not — was talk about it.

Her debut memoir, I Think I'm Ready to Talk, is what happened when she stopped minimizing. It's a raw, honest account of surviving not just illness, but the medical system, the silence, and the long middle years that nobody celebrates. Written with clarity, dark humor, and deep compassion, it's the book Erin needed to find during the hardest years of her life — and couldn't.

Professionally, Erin is a financial strategy leader for startup companies and a mentor to women in leadership. She lives outside Chicago with her husband, their son, and a goldendoodle. She is a champion for brain aneurysm awareness and advocates openly for better listening in women's healthcare.