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Erica Berry

Author of 2024 Oregon Book Award-winning 'Wolfish: Wolf, Self and the Stories We Tell About Fear' (Flatiron, 2023); essays in the New York Times, Guardian, Orion, Hazlitt, Yale Review, Outside, Aeon, and other publications; writing instructor at Literary Arts, the Attic Institute, and other institutions.

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Sam

Hi there, and thanks for your interest in chatting.

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On my mind

Environmental storytelling; how our feelings (internal worlds!) shape our environments (the external one!); hurdles and doubts in the creative process; balancing anxieties and fears with hope and joy; cultivating community; the writing life in general.

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Why I'm excited to talk with readers

Rebecca Solnit writes that she first fell in love with reading because it offered her tunnels to other lives--and then, once she started publishing, she realized wonderful people came through those tunnels to her. I know exactly what she means. I am a writer in part because of how much I enjoy being in conversation both on and off the page. Whether or not you believe in astrology, know that I am a weigh-both-sides Libra who loves to circle an issue or question and think it through from all corners. I love talking with passionate people of all stripes, whether readers, writers, environmental thinkers, or just people with a strong sense of inquiry.

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Also!

No need to come in with an agenda--I'm happy for a conversation to spiral and ping-pong back and forth as we find our stride.

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Looking forward,

Erica

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Wolfish

Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell about Fear

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“This is one of those stories that begins with a female body. Hers was crumpled, roadside, in the ash-colored slush between asphalt and snowbank.”

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So begins Erica Berry’s kaleidoscopic exploration of wolves, both real and symbolic. At the center of this lyrical inquiry is the legendary OR-7, who roams away from his familial pack in northeastern Oregon. While charting OR-7’s record-breaking journey out of the Wallowa Mountains, Erica simultaneously details her own coming-of-age as she moves away from home and wrestles with inherited beliefs about fear, danger, femininity, and the body.

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“I DEVOURED EVERY STARTLING, LYRICAL, HAUNTING PAGE OF WOLFISH. A STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT, IT LEFT ME FEELING LIKE ONE OF THE PACK.”

— Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

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