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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

some go-to drafting strategies from me & @ingridrojasc.bsky.social 🟢 as Ingrid puts it, part of writing a book necessarily involves “the art of keeping oneself going” day after day after day 3 weeks until writing workshops start at The Ministry of Words, more info below 🔵 theministryofwords.com

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For the foodies: Last week, @ericajberry.bsky.social won a James Beard award for this essay 🍄 💅 congrats, Erica! orionmagazine.org/article/intu...

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Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine

On poison, pleasure, and trust

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Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today we’re featuring Erica Berry’s “On Rehearsal,” a Climate Annotation evoking lilies, gender roles, childhood visions of romantic love, as well as how to respond to the climate crisis. @ericajberry.bsky.social Free to read online for the next two weeks. ecotonemagazine.org/climate-anno... ‎

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Devastated by the violence against children by ICE and also: leaders in our country have condoned unspeakable violence against children in Palestine for years now. Which is to say I guess I’m not surprised? This country’s moral compass is so fucked.

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Pantheon Books @pantheonbooks.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Join author @ninamcconigley.bsky.social in conversation with @ericajberry.bsky.social 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-...

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Erica Berry (@ericajberry.bsky.social) is the award-winning writer of ‘Wolfish’ and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington—but what did an average night look like for her as a teenager? We ask the big questions in the latest Orion Questionnaire.

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Erica Berry Answers the Orion Questionnaire - Orion Magazine

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I was on phone with my Montana grandma when she heard a bang in house and realized a bird had hit her window. 10 minutes later she had dissected it for dinner from “UTube.” who will help this woman get her own channel

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

cool that my parents just sent this photo from their garden of me and my freelance friends trying to scavenge protein amid the AI slop of our wilting media ecosystem

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

On wolves, community, and the joys of illustration: Kathleen Yale, author of ‘What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack’, and Erica Berry, author of ‘Wolfish’ get together to talk about one of their favorite maligned creatures. orionmagazine.org/article/no-s...

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

You remember the famous Yellowstone Wolf Project? Kathleen Yale was a wildlife field technician for it a decade into its development. Her experience inspired her latest book, 'What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack,' or what @ericajberry.bsky.social calls "an elegant, thought-provoking" year-in-the-life.

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No Species Lives in Isolation

A conversation about graphic storytelling, wolf-watching, and community, with children’s book author Kathleen Yale

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Or, rather: climate change is the side-effect of the rich eating the earth, and halting global heating will only be accomplished with class struggle, hopefully not an outright war.

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The average U.S. taxpayer paid MINIMUM $112.12 last year on Israeli weapons. Join me in donating $112.12 for Gaza relief today (DM receipts) and I’ll pick two raffle winners: 1) a personalized copy of Wolfish sent to person of your choice 2) a one-hour Zoom writing consult

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

In just a few hours, Theodore Ross of @theferg.org will be in conversation with @ericajberry.bsky.social and @meerasub.bsky.social to celebrate a future of fungi. Join us at 2 p.m. ET TODAY by getting your last minute registrations in right here! orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I lived on Zohran’s freshman floor and he’s an excellent neighbor who always shared his pizza…and if you don’t like the idea of SHARING the pie, well I don’t what to tell you

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Join Orion and our friends at @thefern.org on July 17 (that's next Thursday!) for THE FUTURE IS FUNGI. Featuring @ericajberry.bsky.social and @meerasub.bsky.social in conversation with Theodore Ross, this event will center on fungi and how we can learn to live alongside them. Register now!

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Join Orion and the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) to celebrate Orion’s Summer 2025 issue, The Future Is Fungi.

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Meera Subramanian @meerasub.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Join @orionmagazine.bsky.social & @thefern.org on July 17 (2-3pm ET) to celebrate Orion’s Summer 2025 issue, The Future Is Fungi. I’ll be in conversation with FERN editor Theodore Ross & writer @ericajberry.bsky.social, talking about our pieces for the issue. orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

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Orion and FERN Present The Future Is Fungi - Orion Magazine

Join Orion and the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) to celebrate Orion’s Summer 2025 issue, The Future Is Fungi.

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Longreads @longreads.com · 17/06/2025

"If our foraging accident had taught me anything, it was the precariousness of this equation of life. Our bodies demanded food for survival, but sometimes that food would harm us too." @ericajberry.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/intu...

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Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine

On poison, pleasure, and trust

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

this piece by @ericajberry.bsky.social is the first braided essay I’ve read in a while that has me appreciating the conceptual power of that form thanks to her just-pulled-back-enough weaving of the story's threads — foraging, dating, toxicity, heartbreak, love #🍄 orionmagazine.org/article/intu...

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Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine

On poison, pleasure, and trust

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Ted Fickes @tedfickes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Appreciate the latest update from @ericajberry.bsky.social. Esp re collective ambition. So much work we do writing, creating, and even in/around nonprofit organizing and community building is about collective ambition. It's making shared possibilities real. open.substack.com/pub/ericaber...

I highlighted the last couple sentences about "collective ambition."

Quote: Culturally, we are really fucked around our language around ambition. To frame it in terms of personal growth—and thus to celebrate, as so many have since the COVID pandemic, a de-escalation of ambition in an era of ‘quiet-quitting’ etc.—is to neglect how desperately we need to cultivate ambition for our collective future. Independent ambition = desire to propel one’s own literary career. Collective ambition = desire for a literary landscape where provocative and lyrical books find new readers despite an increasingly AI-algorithm-ed hellscape. Sure, I want to get paid dollars-a-word for magazine essays, but really that means I want a public that values art and writing.

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I flew to Vermont to help my college bf with her newborn but guess what, the baby is helping me

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

WRITE-A-THON UPDATE 🪄🪄 🪄yesterday we raised over $1150 for Pueblo Unido and wrote/revised tens of thousands of words - ever lucky to be a part of PDX’s big-hearted deeply inspiring writing community. Want to be on list to learn more about the June event? Let @emmapattee.bsky.social or I know

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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I've reported on the environment for 12 years in Oregon. I can't tell you how many times I've heard Oregon leaders call the state an environmental leader -- on issues where it's actually a laggard. Time and again, the reality under the rhetoric is damning. The latest example:

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Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them.

The Northwest states passed aggressive goals to decarbonize the power supply but left it to the Bonneville Power Administration to build the transmission lines needed for wind and solar. The agency ha...

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Are you a graduate student in a climate-related field whose research/work/livelihood has been or may be impacted by Trump admin cuts? The @thebulletin.org has a reporter working on a story about this and would love to hear from you. Email me jmckenzie@thebulletin.org and I can put you in touch.

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A woman I don’t know sent a note via my website contact form offering to let me write at her seaside guest cottage for free….obviously I said yes and now I’m here and sorry family I am never leaving

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

New Eula Biss in @orionmagazine.bsky.social and it's (of course) a marvel, about gardening and resistance writ large orionmagazine.org/article/forc...

It isn’t easy, gardening. Any force applied to the project of making something grow is met with an array of opposing forces. This, the sensation of force meeting force, is invigorating in its way, or at least edifying. When else do you feel it, the palpable pressure of an ecosystem, the weight of other kinds of life bearing down on your own, the limits of your own will?

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

42 hours in Hollywood and it’s important the people know how lacquered my hair and sweaty my pits got on the green screen

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

ICYMI, Donna Haraway said the years between 2000 and 2050 should be called The Great Dithering…welcome to its pinnacle 💅🏼

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Oregonians: Please join me and the brilliant @ericajberry.bsky.social, author of Wolfish, at @barnesandnoble.com Hillsboro this Saturday April 19 4PM for a discussion about Becoming Earth, B&N's monthly nonfiction pick and now a NYT Bestseller! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If you're a scientist and you've been asked to cut words like "climate" or "resilience" from your proposals + papers, I want to know. I'm documenting how often this is happening, whether it's self-censorship or directives from above, etc. I will keep you anonymous. I'm on Signal at annakramer.54

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

As a teen I sometimes got to join my mom at Portland Arts & Lectures to see cool authors in this beautiful concert hall, and last night I got to OPEN for translator queen Emily Wilson by reading from Wolfish right there. My squealing teen heart beats on!! Ever grateful to @literaryarts.bsky.social

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Listen to this week's podcast, “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social. buff.ly/7tok7pX

A wide expanse of a beach beside the ocean with pools of water and a barnacle-encrusted tree stump in the foreground with a tree-covered hump in the distance surrounded by further tree stumps in the sand.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/04/2025

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security's "death master file," which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hi PDX!! @emmapattee.bsky.social and I are doing an experimental fundraiser for Pueblo Unido PDX (supporting those w vulnerable immigration status) where we all pledge words&funds then get together and WRITE. Come channel your inner elementary school walk-a-thon-er at Steeplejack Brewing!

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Reminder that the best thing you can do for a writer is photograph all the ppl (especially very hot ones!?) you see reading their book

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Very excited for the next one from @ericajberry.bsky.social!!

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Writers: what can we do about this?? Ty @authorsguild.bsky.social for sharing the @theatlantic.com news that looped me in.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

✨Wow✨ This article is peaceful, immersive, and deeply reflective about our changing landscape. It challenges our self-centric view of time and future uncertainty, inviting us to step back and consider what it means to live within Earth’s ongoing story🌍 The piece is also beautifully read as audio🎧

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

“Sudden change is easier to register than quiet, chronic change. But it is an illusion to imagine that a shaking earth is scarier than a slowly warming one.” — @ericajberry.bsky.social Read “The Fault of Time” by Erica Berry. emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-fa...

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I was so thrilled to discover “Wolfish” when reading for the Oregon Book Awards last year, and I can’t wait for this new collection from @ericajberry.bsky.social !

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Spring is almost here & the extended Becoming Earth tour continues! So excited to team up with @ericajberry.bsky.social & Lee van der Voo in Portland; @zoeschlanger.bsky.social & more in Tucson; and @edyong209.bsky.social in San Francisco. More details + links on my website www.ferrisjabr.com/events

A schedule of Spring events for the book Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr. The text is on a black background strewn with stars. In the bottom right corner is an image from the book's cover: a dynamic living Earth collaged with exquisite organic shapes in shades of yellow, green, pink, and turquoise.

The event details:
March 15 - 16: Tucson Festival of Books (Tucson, AZ)

Wednesday, April 2
Paperback Launch Event
6:00 PM: Broadway Books (Portland, OR)
In conversation with Lee van der Voo, author of The Fish Market and As the World Burns

Saturday, April 19
4:00 PM: Barnes & Noble (Hillsboro, OR)
In conversation with Erica Berry, author of Wolfish

Wednesday, April 23
7:00 PM: Science on Tap: Alberta Rose Theater (Portland, OR) [TICKETED]

Saturday, May 10
San Francisco Botanical Garden (San Francisco, CA)
In conversation with Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

WILDLY hyped to be writing BODIES IN HEAT for @flatironbooks.bsky.social, expanding on essays I've written about love and climate change for @outsidemag.bsky.social , @orionmagazine.bsky.social, and the NYT. Ft : The political utility of crushes! Utopias! Alternative hedonism! Marmots!

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

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“Just as the accumulation of scars and lines on my body reveals the history of my life, so the elements of an ecosystem reveal the history of a place—if we only learn to read them.” @ericajberry.bsky.social Read this week's new essay from Volume 5: Time, “The Fault of Time.” buff.ly/43l7ftT

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Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

What does it mean to love a place that is in constant change? Grappling with the impermanence of landscape, made evident in Montana’s wildfires and the Cascadia earthquake, @ericajberry.bsky.social tries to hold shifting lands she is rooted in. Read “The Fault of Time.” buff.ly/43l7ftT

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Re-learning the violin I stopped playing at 15 and it is so fucking cool to do something that once brought me a lot of performance anxiety and feel zero pressure to excel. Teen self wondered if violin could get me college funding; adult self just doesn’t want bf to evac the house when I practice

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

LOL my mom was about to sign an env petition then remembered the nonprofit director once ghosted me so texted for a vibe check…sir, you are the pest

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