Devastated by the violence against children by ICE and also: leaders in our country have condoned unspeakable violence against children in Palestine for years now. Which is to say I guess I’m not surprised? This country’s moral compass is so fucked.

Join author @ninamcconigley.bsky.social in conversation with @ericajberry.bsky.social to discuss her debut novel HOW TO COMMIT A POST-COLONIAL MURDER. You won’t want to miss this event hosted at Powell’s City of Books! Details here: powells.com/events/nina-...

Erica Berry (@ericajberry.bsky.social) is the award-winning writer of ‘Wolfish’ and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington—but what did an average night look like for her as a teenager? We ask the big questions in the latest Orion Questionnaire.

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

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On wolves, community, and the joys of illustration: Kathleen Yale, author of ‘What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack’, and Erica Berry, author of ‘Wolfish’ get together to talk about one of their favorite maligned creatures. orionmagazine.org/article/no-s...

You remember the famous Yellowstone Wolf Project? Kathleen Yale was a wildlife field technician for it a decade into its development. Her experience inspired her latest book, 'What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack,' or what @ericajberry.bsky.social calls "an elegant, thought-provoking" year-in-the-life.

Or, rather: climate change is the side-effect of the rich eating the earth, and halting global heating will only be accomplished with class struggle, hopefully not an outright war.

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

In just a few hours, Theodore Ross of @theferg.org will be in conversation with @ericajberry.bsky.social and @meerasub.bsky.social to celebrate a future of fungi. Join us at 2 p.m. ET TODAY by getting your last minute registrations in right here! orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

I lived on Zohran’s freshman floor and he’s an excellent neighbor who always shared his pizza…and if you don’t like the idea of SHARING the pie, well I don’t what to tell you

Join Orion and our friends at @thefern.org on July 17 (that's next Thursday!) for THE FUTURE IS FUNGI. Featuring @ericajberry.bsky.social and @meerasub.bsky.social in conversation with Theodore Ross, this event will center on fungi and how we can learn to live alongside them. Register now!

Join @orionmagazine.bsky.social & @thefern.org on July 17 (2-3pm ET) to celebrate Orion’s Summer 2025 issue, The Future Is Fungi. I’ll be in conversation with FERN editor Theodore Ross & writer @ericajberry.bsky.social, talking about our pieces for the issue. orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

"If our foraging accident had taught me anything, it was the precariousness of this equation of life. Our bodies demanded food for survival, but sometimes that food would harm us too." @ericajberry.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/intu...

this piece by @ericajberry.bsky.social is the first braided essay I’ve read in a while that has me appreciating the conceptual power of that form thanks to her just-pulled-back-enough weaving of the story's threads — foraging, dating, toxicity, heartbreak, love #🍄 orionmagazine.org/article/intu...

Appreciate the latest update from @ericajberry.bsky.social. Esp re collective ambition. So much work we do writing, creating, and even in/around nonprofit organizing and community building is about collective ambition. It's making shared possibilities real. open.substack.com/pub/ericaber...

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

I've reported on the environment for 12 years in Oregon. I can't tell you how many times I've heard Oregon leaders call the state an environmental leader -- on issues where it's actually a laggard. Time and again, the reality under the rhetoric is damning. The latest example:

Are you a graduate student in a climate-related field whose research/work/livelihood has been or may be impacted by Trump admin cuts? The @thebulletin.org has a reporter working on a story about this and would love to hear from you. Email me [email protected] and I can put you in touch.

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...

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 💅🏼

I'm teaching a 90 minute Zoom workshop on researched memoir next Tues (5-6:30pm PST) and there are just a few spots left online--would love to see you there! lu.ma/jrfvy1ws

Oregonians: Please join me and the brilliant @ericajberry.bsky.social, author of Wolfish, at @barnesandnoble.com Hillsboro this Saturday April 19 4PM for a discussion about Becoming Earth, B&N's monthly nonfiction pick and now a NYT Bestseller! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

If you're a scientist and you've been asked to cut words like "climate" or "resilience" from your proposals + papers, I want to know. I'm documenting how often this is happening, whether it's self-censorship or directives from above, etc. I will keep you anonymous. I'm on Signal at annakramer.54

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

As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Listen to this week's podcast, “The Fault of Time” by @ericajberry.bsky.social. buff.ly/7tok7pX

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

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

Very excited for the next one from @ericajberry.bsky.social!!

Writers: what can we do about this?? Ty @authorsguild.bsky.social for sharing the @theatlantic.com news that looped me in.

✨Wow✨ This article is peaceful, immersive, and deeply reflective about our changing landscape. It challenges our self-centric view of time and future uncertainty, inviting us to step back and consider what it means to live within Earth’s ongoing story🌍 The piece is also beautifully read as audio🎧

"The concept of an unchanging wilderness—its panoramas predictable, its seasons unrolling like backdrops in a school play—is a fiction." @ericajberry.bsky.social in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-fa...

“Sudden change is easier to register than quiet, chronic change. But it is an illusion to imagine that a shaking earth is scarier than a slowly warming one.” — @ericajberry.bsky.social Read “The Fault of Time” by Erica Berry. emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-fa...

I was so thrilled to discover “Wolfish” when reading for the Oregon Book Awards last year, and I can’t wait for this new collection from @ericajberry.bsky.social !

Spring is almost here & the extended Becoming Earth tour continues! So excited to team up with @ericajberry.bsky.social & Lee van der Voo in Portland; @zoeschlanger.bsky.social & more in Tucson; and @edyong209.bsky.social in San Francisco. More details + links on my website www.ferrisjabr.com/events

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!

“Just as the accumulation of scars and lines on my body reveals the history of my life, so the elements of an ecosystem reveal the history of a place—if we only learn to read them.” @ericajberry.bsky.social Read this week's new essay from Volume 5: Time, “The Fault of Time.” buff.ly/43l7ftT

What does it mean to love a place that is in constant change? Grappling with the impermanence of landscape, made evident in Montana’s wildfires and the Cascadia earthquake, @ericajberry.bsky.social tries to hold shifting lands she is rooted in. Read “The Fault of Time.” buff.ly/43l7ftT

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

Trying to hype myself for the future…who will be in LA for AWP?! (Also— come say hi at my Saturday 10:35am panel on writing the more-than-human w/ Eleanor Henderson, Gina Chung, Henry Hoke, and Roy Guzman!!)

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

So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund. www.arts.gov/news/press-r...

Congratulations to all of these amazing writers, and especially to @ericajberry.bsky.social, whose work I look forward to reading for years and years and years.