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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 7d

...even if you were too gab for your own good sometimes when we were rushing to class

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · 7d

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 18d

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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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 22d

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.

No Species Lives in Isolation

A conversation about graphic storytelling, wolf-watching, and community, with children’s book author Kathleen Yale

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Sep 7

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.

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 17

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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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

CNN @cnn.com · Jul 14

Across various private New York Facebook groups viewed by CNN – such as those for residents of the Upper East Side – some users have anonymously discussed potential plans to move out of the city following Zohran Mamdani’s primary win. cnn.it/3IpkOjr

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 9

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!

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.

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Meera Subramanian @meerasub.bsky.social · Jul 7

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...

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.

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Longreads @longreads.com · Jun 17

"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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Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine

On poison, pleasure, and trust

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · Jun 16

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!

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Ian @ianchanges.bsky.social · Jun 13

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...

Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine

On poison, pleasure, and trust

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · Jun 11

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!

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Ted Fickes @tedfickes.bsky.social · Jun 11

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 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.

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · Jun 11

I flew to Vermont to help my college bf with her newborn but guess what, the baby is helping me

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · May 12

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

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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · May 12

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:

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...

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · May 6

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.

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · May 6

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

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · May 5

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

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · May 2

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

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · Apr 23

42 hours in Hollywood and it’s important the people know how lacquered my hair and sweaty my pits got on the green screen

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · Apr 23

ICYMI, Donna Haraway said the years between 2000 and 2050 should be called The Great Dithering…welcome to its pinnacle 💅🏼

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Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social · Apr 18

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

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…

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