Erica Berry
@ericajberry.bsky.social
Writer of feelings & the environment (Orion, NYT, Guardian, etc), teacher, author of Wolfish (winner of 2024 Oregon Book Award). Portland, OR. She/her. www.ericaberry.com
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
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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
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
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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
...even if you were too gab for your own good sometimes when we were rushing to class
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
...even if you were too gab for your own good sometimes when we were rushing to class
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
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
August 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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
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
I flew to Vermont to help my college bf with her newborn but guess what, the baby is helping me
June 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I flew to Vermont to help my college bf with her newborn but guess what, the baby is helping me
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
May 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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
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
May 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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
New Eula Biss in @orionmagazine.bsky.social and it's (of course) a marvel, about gardening and resistance writ large
orionmagazine.org/article/forc...
orionmagazine.org/article/forc...
May 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New Eula Biss in @orionmagazine.bsky.social and it's (of course) a marvel, about gardening and resistance writ large
orionmagazine.org/article/forc...
orionmagazine.org/article/forc...
42 hours in Hollywood and it’s important the people know how lacquered my hair and sweaty my pits got on the green screen
April 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
42 hours in Hollywood and it’s important the people know how lacquered my hair and sweaty my pits got on the green screen
ICYMI, Donna Haraway said the years between 2000 and 2050 should be called The Great Dithering…welcome to its pinnacle 💅🏼
April 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
ICYMI, Donna Haraway said the years between 2000 and 2050 should be called The Great Dithering…welcome to its pinnacle 💅🏼
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
April 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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
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!
April 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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!
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
April 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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
Writers: what can we do about this??
Ty @authorsguild.bsky.social for sharing the @theatlantic.com news that looped me in.
Ty @authorsguild.bsky.social for sharing the @theatlantic.com news that looped me in.
March 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Writers: what can we do about this??
Ty @authorsguild.bsky.social for sharing the @theatlantic.com news that looped me in.
Ty @authorsguild.bsky.social for sharing the @theatlantic.com news that looped me in.
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!
March 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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!
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
February 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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
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
February 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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
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
February 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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
when was the last time you went hiking only looking for LITTLE THINGS not big views??
January 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
when was the last time you went hiking only looking for LITTLE THINGS not big views??
BF on such a Hilary Mantel kick that my new hobby is just surreptitiously photographing his literary multitasking around house
January 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
BF on such a Hilary Mantel kick that my new hobby is just surreptitiously photographing his literary multitasking around house
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...
January 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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...
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!!
January 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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!!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Babygirl
January 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Babygirl
woke up at 2am with a terrible sore throat so yes I am accepting novels and beverage deliveries in bed today
December 18, 2024 at 6:43 PM
woke up at 2am with a terrible sore throat so yes I am accepting novels and beverage deliveries in bed today