Reading Series: Erica Berry
October 13 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
The Trinity Reading Series presents Oregon Book Award winner Erica Berry. Her book, Wolfish (https://www.ericaberry.com/wolfish), explores the biology and mythology of wolves, as well as what it means to be human in the Pacific Northwest. Berry will read from her book and answer questions. Books will be available for purchase. (In person only)
About the author: Erica Berry’s nonfiction debut, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear, was published in February 2023 by Flatiron/Macmillan (US+Canada), and Canongate (UK+Commonwealth) in March 2023. Wolfish is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and a semifinalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her essays, often about the intersection between feelings and the natural environment, appear in The New York Times, Orion, The Yale Review, The Guardian, Aeon, Literary Hub, Wired, Outside, Colorado Review, and The Atlantic, among others. Winner of the Steinberg Essay Prize, she has received grants and fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources.
The 2019-2020 National Writers’ Series Writer-in-Residence in Traverse City, Michigan, Erica is on the summer faculty of the Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop, and also teaches at Literary Arts, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the New York Times Student Journeys. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2014, and received her MFA from the University of Minnesota as a College of Liberal Arts Fellow in 2018. She now lives in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, where she is a Writer-in-the-Schools and an Associate Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Upcoming Literary Arts Events
November 2: Portland Book Festival: Spirited Books
Join fellow Trinitarians to swap stories and recommendations from this year’s Portland Book Festival. Suggested event list and registration coming soon.
March 9: Trinity Reading Series presents Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes, author of Glory in the Margins and Glory, Too, and of over twenty books for children and adults and poet laureate of Grace Brethren Church in Southern California.
