Erica Berry

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!

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Erica Berry Answers the Orion Questionnaire - Orion Magazine In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

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.

She did just eat rattlesnake rabbit sausages so her appetite was primed…

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

ty friend!!!

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

ily Zohran

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.
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No Species Lives in Isolation A conversation about graphic storytelling, wolf-watching, and community, with children’s book author Kathleen Yale

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!
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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

Register for The Future Is Fungi Join Orion and the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) to celebrate Orion’s Summer 2025 issue, The Future Is Fungi.

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!

Orion and FERN Present The Future Is Fungi - Orion Magazine Join Orion and the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) to celebrate Orion’s Summer 2025 issue, The Future Is Fungi.

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...

Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine On poison, pleasure, and trust

"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

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So very glad this resonated, Ian. I could not separate the strands of living in my mind—glad it works on the page for you!

Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine On poison, pleasure, and trust

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...

I really appreciate how you extend and apply this to nonprofit world. So very glad it resonated, Ted--and thanks for your work in that sphere!

I highlighted the last couple sentences about "collective ambition." Quote: Culturally, we are really fucked around our language around ambition. To frame it in terms of personal growth—and thus to celebrate, as so many have since the COVID pandemic, a de-escalation of ambition in an era of ‘quiet-quitting’ etc.—is to neglect how desperately we need to cultivate ambition for our collective future. Independent ambition = desire to propel one’s own literary career. Collective ambition = desire for a literary landscape where provocative and lyrical books find new readers despite an increasingly AI-algorithm-ed hellscape. Sure, I want to get paid dollars-a-word for magazine essays, but really that means I want a public that values art and writing.

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.

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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

Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them. The Northwest states passed aggressive goals to decarbonize the power supply but left it to the Bonneville Power Administration to build the transmission lines needed for wind and solar. The agency ha...

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 jmckenzie@thebulletin.org and I can put you in touch.

Considering amending said form to encourage weekend donation of second homes…

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

It isn’t easy, gardening. Any force applied to the project of making something grow is met with an array of opposing forces. This, the sensation of force meeting force, is invigorating in its way, or at least edifying. When else do you feel it, the palpable pressure of an ecosystem, the weight of other kinds of life bearing down on your own, the limits of your own will?

New Eula Biss in @orionmagazine.bsky.social and it's (of course) a marvel, about gardening and resistance writ large
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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 💅🏼