Erica Stern is an essayist and fiction writer whose debut memoir, Frontier, is forthcoming from Barrelhouse Books in June.
Her work has previously appeared in journals such as Mississippi Review, The Iowa Review, and Denver Quarterly, and has been named a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Awards and the Mississippi Review Prize, among other recognitions. Erica has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She received her undergraduate degree in English from Yale and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native of New Orleans, she now lives with her family in Evanston, Illinois. |