Erika Howsare

Erika Howsare is the author of The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors, published by Catapult in 2024—finalist for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. She has also published two books of poetry and hosted a podcast miniseries, If You See a Deer. She teaches writing privately from her home in Virginia.

Climate Annotations – Issue 38

Warrior Sister

A plant enthusiast explores poison ivy’s troubled belonging.

Nonfiction – Issue 31

•The First Thing a Plant Does Is Branch in Two

An amateur botanist gets intimate with the plants of the Blue Ridge—ailanthus, stickweed, kudzu—and reconsiders Western science’s taxonomy of leafy criminals and citizens.