Erin Barrett (born 1968) is an author, trivia writer, and life coach.

She attended Samford University and has a BA in Humanities from the New College of California.

She and her ex-husband Jack Mingo are co-founders and co-writers of the Ask Jeeves series of trivia books which published selected "questions as they flowed, unedited, into the well-known Web site".

[4] Barrett has a decade of work within the wine industry.

[5] On February 27, 2004, Barrett appeared as one of the Three Wise Men, a lifeline introduced in the U.S., on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.