Erin Austen Abbott studied photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA, and at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA.

She has had fine art photography shows in Tampa, Seattle, Boston, Memphis, Los Angeles, Oxford, MS, Taylor, MS, Charleston, SC, Basel, Switzerland, Milan, Italy, Berlin, Germany, Water Valley, MS, and Long Beach, MS, 1999-2024.