Erica Berry

Erica Berry is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron, 2023) which won the 2024 Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her essays, which often explore the intersection of our emotional lives and the natural world, appear in The New York Times, Orion, Outside, The Guardian, and The Yale Review, among other publications. A contributing editor at Orion magazine, she has taught at Summer Fishtrap, the Orion Summer Environmental Writers Workshop, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the New York Times Student Journeys. A forthcoming visiting distinguished writer at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, she is also a Writer-in-the-Schools in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her second book, on love amidst climate catastrophe, is forthcoming from Flatiron (US) and Faber (UK).