If you're in Golden tomorrow at 5pm, please join me for a talk courtesy of the Hennebach series at the Colorado School of Mines! I hope to see you there.

This "Literary Lawn Party" looks amazing! My panel will be "Short Story," State Capitol 113, 4:00 PM 9/13 with Jeff Barry, Robert Busby, Max Hipp, and Ed Park. I hope to see you there! msbookfestival.com

Writers! I’ll be teaching the following classes at Lit Fest this June at Lighthouse Writers Workshop—I hope you can join me! Link here: lighthousewriters.org/workshops?wo...

Thank you to the Mystery Writers of America for selecting my short story, "Eat My Moose," for Best Short Story of 2025. What an incredible honor; I'm feeling overwhelmed and very goofy. Congratulations also to all the amazing nominees and winners!

I belatedly found this video Louise Erdrich made; it blew my mind and made me cry. Let's add a shout-out for Louise's most recent novel, The Mighty Red. Soulful, elegant, hilarious, wry, audacious, staggering, gorgeous, riverine...Such a remarkable writer.

Writers! Join me and instructors Andrea Dupree, Mike Henry, Karen Palmer, Juan Morales, and Suzi Q. Smith at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop Grand Lake Writers Retreat this summer from July 13–18 in Grand Lake, CO. Register here: lighthousewriters.org/retreats

Please join me, Arsen Kashkashian and Maeve Conran at the Boulder Bookstore 3/12 at 6:30p for the KGNU Radio Book Club LIVE show. $6 ticket sale includes $5-off coupon for Save Me, Stranger or any other bookstore purchase. Register here—I hope to see you! www.eventbrite.com/e/erika-krou...

Twin Cities folks, please join me as I talk/excitedly babble with my literary hero, Louise Erdrich on Thursday, 3/6 at 7pm. I can't believe I get to meet and talk with this extraordinary writer! Birchbark Bizhiw, 1629 Hennepin #275, Minneapolis.

Hi Denver folks! If you want to hear a reading+chat and hang out with a bunch of Erikas, come and see me and Erika T. Wurth (author of White Horse) at Tattered Cover Colfax the evening of March 4th. Hope to see you there!

Want to escape this country for a little while? Come write with me in Mongolia! I’ll be teaching a 10-day writing retreat with The Himalayan Writing Retreat June 18-28, recently featured in NYT. www.himalayanwritingretreat.com/event/mongol...
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Friends and family, email me if you're planning to come in person; I'll send you the coupon code so it's free (and livestream is free automatically). Register for in-person/livestream here: lighthousewriters.org/workshops?wo... I hope to see you there!

6pm tomorrow at West Side Books—I hope to see you there!

Holy crap, thank you to Lizz Schumer at People Magazine for selecting my janky-ass short story collection as a People Pick of the week! Not the most bizarre thing to happen this year, but...still amazing!

Today is pub day for my short story collection, Save Me,Stranger. I began this book in 2013, so it's been a long trail. I feel very weepy and grateful today.