Spark Artist

Erica Berry is a writer based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her essays, which are often about the intersection of inner worlds and outer environments, appear or are forthcoming in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Emergence, The Yale Review, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron/Macmillan, 2023), which won the 2024 Oregon Book Award, and Bodies In Heat: Love in a Changing Climate, forthcoming from Flatiron (US) and Faber (UK). Winner of a 2025 Oregon Career Fellowship, she is a 2025 Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington and a 2026 Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor at Willamette University.