Erica Berry

Erica Berry is a writer based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her essays appear in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Emergence, The Yale Review, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear from Flatiron /Macmillan, which won the 2024 Oregon Book Award, and Bodies In Heat: Love in a Changing Climate, forthcoming from Flatiron (US) and Faber (UK). Winner of a 2025 Oregon Career Fellowship and 2025 Spark Award, she was a 2026 Mark and Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor at Willamette University.

Climate Annotations – Issue 38

On Rehearsal

Women tend to suffer disproportionately from the negative impacts of extreme climate events for reasons ranging from caregiving responsibilities to lack of control over household resources to cultural norms for attire (Belay et al., 2017; Jost et al., 2016 .