Away Message
Erica BerryOccasional essays and updates on my writing, my whims, whatever I want
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"So you're betting that people actually want to read about love, huh?"
I’ve spent the last few years trying to read and write myself into new ways of thinking about romance. It started in 2021 when I wrote an essay for Outside arguing that we needed more love stories in climate fiction, because love helps us i...
An Incomplete List of Things I Adored in 2025
- Becoming a by-name regular somewhere. Did not know this would be the consignment store which is currently selling my parents’ record collection but it’s the best. The other day Sam and I walked in with a closet clean-out and our fave per...
The cuffing plot
This week I met up with a single friend in her 30s. Sitting at the window table we now call the “wallow table” in a cozy-Christmas-light-lit-pub, we drank peppermint tea (her) and non-alcoholic Guinness (trust me) and let ourselves bitch. W...
I love your mediocrity
Within weeks of selling Wolfish, I became fixated on my insecurities, tugging at them like hangnails. Surely I was not well-organized enough, not dogged or savvy enough, to write the book I now had to write. My anxiety was essentially narci...
Thirty, flirty, and grocery-shopping with friends
In mid-October, my (normally stable) mother fell down the stairs and fractured both her elbows. In the weeks afterward, she could not feed or dress herself, much less remove her contacts or floss her teeth. Helping out became an all-other-h...
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Erica Berry wrote WOLFISH, published by Flatiron Books (US)/Canongate (UK). She often writes about big feelings and the natural world for places like The New York Times, The Guardian, Orion, Outside, etc. She lives in Portland, OR.
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