Erica Berry is a writer and teacher based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell about Fear (Flatiron Books, 2023) and the forthcoming Bodies in Heat; Love in a Changing Climate (Flatiron Books, 2027). Her essays appear in publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Yale Review, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. 

She is an Associate Fellow at the Attic Institute for Arts and Letters and a writing instructor with Literary Arts in Portland, and a forthcoming Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. Find her online at @ericajberry or ericaberry.com.