Erica Berry’s nonfiction debut, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear, was published in February 2023 by Flatiron/Macmillan (US+Canada), and Canongate (UK+Commonwealth) in March 2023. Wolfish won the 2024 Oregon Book Award and was a semifinalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. You can read a bit about the book here and see a related essay here. Her second book, Bodies in Heat: Love in a Changing Climate, is forthcoming from Flatiron (US) and Faber (UK).

Her essays, often about the intersection between feelings and the natural environment, appear in The New York Times, Orion, The Yale Review, The Guardian, Aeon, Emergence, Literary Hub, Outside, and others. She has received grants and fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources.

A former National Writers’ Series Writer-in-Residence in Traverse City, Michigan, Erica was a Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina in fall of 2025. She is the Mark & Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, during spring 2026. She has taught at the Orion Writers’ Workshop, the Fishtrap Gathering of Writers, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the New York Times Student Journeys.

She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2014, and received her MFA from the University of Minnesota as a College of Liberal Arts Fellow in 2018. She lives in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Represented by:

Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbit; Emma Leong at Janklow & Nesbit UK.