Erica Berry

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 💅🏼

Between World and Self: The Art of Researched Memoir with Erica Berry · Zoom · Luma How might narratives from history, literature, or the natural world complement the telling of our own personal life stories? And how do you balance pivoting…

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

A wide expanse of a beach beside the ocean with pools of water and a barnacle-encrusted tree stump in the foreground with a tree-covered hump in the distance surrounded by further tree stumps in the sand.

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.
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The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security's "death master file," which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.

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

And if you don’t want to write…set a goal to come read/sketch/etc. It’ll be about 30 mins of hellos and mingling, 2 hrs quiet work, 30 mins debrief. Lots of good people :)

PDX WRITE-A-THON - Sign-Up Join Erica Berry and Emma Pattee on May 11, 2025 from 3:30-6:30pm at Steeplejack Brewing in a fundraiser for Pueblo Unido PDX.

Sign up here, spots limited and going fast! docs.google.com/forms/d/1zaa...

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!!