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 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, and is a forthcoming Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington.

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 now lives in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Represented by:

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