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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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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

...even if you were too gab for your own good sometimes when we were rushing to class

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Grateful that this little essay I wrote last year for a Portland lit mag - about wearing the same lil Target shirt on a bunch of dates - is getting some love 💓https://mosslit.com/Erica-Berry-The-Shirt

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

when was the last time you went hiking only looking for LITTLE THINGS not big views??

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

BF on such a Hilary Mantel kick that my new hobby is just surreptitiously photographing his literary multitasking around house

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Few spots left in two classes I'm teaching this spring! A structure class on ZOOM Jan 24 and 31st, and a memoir intensive IRL in Portland March 8-9. Questions? Please reach out! www.ericaberry.com/teachingands...

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Sorry but an NYC friend just told me Books Are Magic 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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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Babygirl

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

woke up at 2am with a terrible sore throat so yes I am accepting novels and beverage deliveries in bed today

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Apply by Jan 1 for a SCHOLARSHIP or FELLOWSHIP 1 to come to Fishtrap Writers in beautiful NE Oregon next July. I attended in 2016 as a writer and had huge breakthrough on Wolfish—i’m now delighted to be back as an instructor. TLDR: Write by a lake in the mountains 🌲 fishtrap.org/fellowships/

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Feeling incredibly lucky to be holed up as the first artist-in-resident at the Atticus Hotel in Oregon wine country during this foggy December week

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

When was the last time you cried in public!? Mine was while reading @meerasub.bsky.social's astounding VQR essay, which is about friendship and kidneys (!), but really about how both empathy and gratitude transform us www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/es...

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I always want more multi-genre cross-pollination when it comes to learning 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 or idea. Learn more & sign up here:

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I wrote about inviting companionship into your to-do list, ft. a list of friend-date-ideas that are both “useful” and “fun,” bc being a human in late-capitalism is hard ericaberry.substack.com/p/thirty-fli...

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Trump's oil-billionaire-endorsed pick for the Energy Dept thinks natural disasters have not gotten worse and fossil fuels can stop poverty. It's like, sir, deny global warming all you want but even your hot takes are getting hotter www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/c...

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Nothing makes my day more than a note from an undergrad ecology major who says Wolfish helped her “assign words and emotions” to fear experiences in her life 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

SALLY ROONEY GO OFF "So what’s left?...Throwing soup in public art galleries? [These are] tactics aimed at shifting public discourse. Multinational corporations are not destroying Earth because it endears them to the public: they are destroying Earth for profit." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Superlatively excited to teach an environmental writing class next year at Univ of North Carolina in Wilmington as their new MFA program gets off the ground. Intrigued?? Get more info below:

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

obsessed that LeGuin wrote a whole essay decryingTolstoy’s “unhappy families” quote

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Really recommend baking the apple fritter-y Babette Friedman cake to eat with cold whipped cream—not for Thanksgiving, but bc you deserve it at both 9am and 3pm and 9pm in the days before the small talk hits

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Reading this Rukeyser every morning like a hymn

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Lost my Grandpa Tony last night I rarely knew him to drink, but at the end he asked for a PBR, and the blessed Missoula nurses gave one to him. Last spring we took him to Palm Springs, and he told me his goal was finding "a rich lady and a steak." We got him 50% there.

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

TLDR: love is “very political as well as poetic,” ty Mary Shelley

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

In college, I’d go to the library and read back issues of Orion, in awe. A true highlight of the year to now publish this feature about love + the environment that surrounds it—and how we might reframe our ideas of romance as the world warms. orionmagazine.org/article/natu...

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

about to have 48 beautiful solo-ish hours in SF while staying @ friend’s in the Mission. I’m spending tmrw at the DeYoung + have dinner plans in eve + will eat every Tartine pastry but what else? I’m trying to wander and eat and read my novel in a chill fun bar (which one?)

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Literally how will my ego recover from the note my mailman just left me about my book

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Can’t get over this lil scene from a marriage, husband speaking to wife on her book tour www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

"Yellow sadness is the surprise sadness....of naps...Purple sadness is the sadness of....heels echoing down a long corridor, it is the sound of your mother closing the door at night, leaving you alone." Reminder that Mary Ruefle's color-sadness poems from My Private Property absolutely slap

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

lol so I wrote an essay about a summer of first dates told through the POV of the Target shirt I wore to every one...grateful to the editors at @mosslitmag for commissioning it and publishing so beautifully alongside other inspiring local voices. Available @ your PNW indie! mosslit.com

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

postcard from a perfect one-room cabin at Craigardan, an interdisciplinary place-and-community-focused artist residency in the Adirondacks. a former home for me, now visiting for a talk 🌲💛

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Louise Glück, her words forever scaffolding my brain 💔

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