Erica Berry is a writer and teacher based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her essays appear in publications such as The Guardian, the New York Times, Emergence Magazine, Aeon, Yale Review, Guernica, Outside, The Atlantic, and Orion. Her first book, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell about Fear, was shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award.

She has taught classes and workshops at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the New York Times Student Journeys, the Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School in Sicily, the University of Minnesota, and Literary Arts in Portland. Winner of the Steinberg Essay Prize and the Kurt Brown Prize in Nonfiction, she has received fellowships and funding from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Tin House, the Ucross Foundation, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. A former writer-in-residence at the National Writers Series in Traverse City, Michigan, she is currently an associate fellow at the Attic Institute for Arts and Letters in Portland.