Author of Wolfish (https://xitter.cf/t.co/aZEJXvdyjz) Flatiron(US)/Canongate (UK). Env & feelings in @guardian @nytimes @Orion_Magazine, @yalereview @AeonMag. She/her.
Portland, OR
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Last night I got to accept a freaking Oregon Book Award in the same venue where I went to senior prom and I am absolutely not recovered from the honor and non-stop smiley joy of it. Hugest howl of thanks to the judges and my Oregon community and @literaryarts 🐺❣️
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Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear by Erica Berry
ALT To all who have been trapped by someone else's fear
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Join author @ninawyo in conversation with @ericajberry to discuss her debut novel HOW TO COMMIT A POST-COLONIAL MURDER. You won’t want to miss this event hosted at Powell’s City of Books!
Details here: powells.com/events/nina-mcco…
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New Yorkers always judging the bookshelf in your small apartment: I spotted a copy of “The Power Broker,” Erica Berry’s “Wolfish,” and Kal Penn’s memoir, “You Can’t Be Serious.”
I spent the past few months reporting a profile of @ZohranKMamdani trying to answer two questions:
1) Who is this guy?
2) How does he fit into NYC history?
Here's what I found (it's long, sorry):
newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
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“Regular New Yorkers encountering Mamdani on the street don’t recoil. The most fervent fear of him was expressed by the powerful.” @ericlach
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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Tbh after six months of Democrats agonizing over how they need to appeal to young voters and men, it’s wild to see them turn on Zohran for doing exactly that
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4. “Intuitive Eating” @ericajberry
“This piece centers on wild food, but it goes so much deeper than that, exploring how humans forage and the unexpected ways that harm can find us.”
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"I had not fully grasped how searching for mushrooms would, like putting on a pair of magic glasses, force me to examine the whole landscape." @ericajberry @Orion_Magazine
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“There is no way to play three-dimensional chess with bigots.”
For @lithub, the brave and brilliant @lydiakiesling on refusing to speak at an anti-trans university
lithub.com/lydia-kiesling-on…
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Federal employees, listen up! You can now read HCN for free 🥳
📣 Starting now, @HighCountryNews will provide free digital access to all of our reporting to any federal employee, including those who have recently lost jobs due to government layoffs. 📣
#federalemployees #governmentlayoffs #DOGE
Feel very lucky to be working on a NEW PROJECT with @Flatironbooks, ft. the political utility of crushes, marmots, utopias, alternative hedonism, and how we imagine better futures on a heating planet 🤌
ALT BODIES IN HEAT with Flatiron Books. By Erica Berry Non-fiction: Narrative February 28, 2025 Author of WOLFISH Erica Berry's BODIES IN HEAT, an exploration of how our sexual and romantic lives are evolving on a warming planet beset by environmental crises, using memoir, cultural criticism, science, and investigative reporting to interrogate our 21st century expectations around romance, to Lee Oglesby at Flatiron Books, by Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbit (NA). UK: Emma Leong at Janklow & Nesbit Foreign: Mairi Friesen-Escandell at Janklow & Nesbit
HIVE (or what is left of it): anybody know of places with funding/grant/support for a playwright working with climate/environmental themes?!
An anonymous note from my phone is in here and if you preorder it and identify it I’ll buy you a spaghetti dinner
Introducing...Notes 📱🗒️
Notes is the first book collaboration between Dirt and @night__gallery. A tribute to the humble iPhone note, the collection features 100 phone notes from 100 creative contributors.
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please please PLEASE if you see this happening in LA or Ventura Counties, report it to @AGRobBonta at oag.ca.gov/report — it is quite literally a criminal offense!!!
Sorry but @naomigloebl just told me @booksaremagicbk is currently calling Wolfish “THE cool girl book,” and that, compared with just meeting the ecologist/bookseller in Winthrop, Washington who currently has it on their staff faves shelf, has made me lose my chill!
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✨ 𝕆𝕦𝕣 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟜 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕚𝕟 𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨 ✨
We kicked off the My Movie Theater series with @mubi featuring work by @IsaacFitzgerald, @RaxKingIsDead, @ericajberry and more. dirt.fyi/article/2024/02/my-…
glad the people get it! dirt.fyi/article/2024/03/my-…
Shoutout @SarahMoroz, @rosielanners, @LangeAlexandra, @miri_yam_, @alex___tanner, @yeehawchsburger, @stpanks, @ericajberry, @AlexiGunner, @k80way, @janesingasong, @Emily_Sundberg, @michellem_sc, @marlowetatiana, @IsaacFitzgerald, @waldenmgreen, @michellelynking, @foldyrhands, @iambaylina, @zzzzaaaacccchhh, @savbrads, @bobojojo, @terrygtnguyen, @ashleybardhan
I always want more multi-genre cross-pollination when it comes to craft, so my brilliant novelist friend Jules Ohman and I decided to *co-teach the Zoom structure class we wanted for ourselves.* For all prose writers beginning to blueprint a new project: docs.google.com/forms/d/1dOc…
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Just thinking about something @ericajberry said about her book’s main takeaway, namely “being afraid is just not the same thing as being in danger. And our collective (and individual) failures to distinguish these things causes so, so much death.”
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It’s crazy how a “lone wolf” is a wolf “looking for a pack” … thank you @ericajberry for WOLFISH — each page is full of wonder — on page 141 and awed
