LIT Sunday: Author Readings

This year’s author lineup offers a vibrant spectrum of voices—memoirists, poets, novelists, and screenwriters—who will each read an 8-minute segment from their latest writing! Before they draw you into the world’s they’ve created on the written page each writer will share a quick story about their first concert or most memorable concert experience. It’s a new addition, and we think you’re really gonna dig it. Curated and hosted by Frayn Masters, this year’s program invites audiences to sit back and let their minds be filled with the imagery and characters of some of today’s most exciting literary voices.

Erica Berry is a writer and teacher based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her essays, which are often about the intersection of inner worlds and outer environments, appear in The New York Times, The Guardian, Emergence, Outside, The Yale Review, and other publications.

She is the author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron/Macmillan, 2023), 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, she is a contributing editor at Orion magazine and a 2025 Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington.

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