Join Project Coyote Ambassador Vanessa Chakour in welcoming special guest Erica Berry, author of "Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear," for a discussion on the cultural, emotional, and symbolic lessons that wolves and other wild carnivores can teach us, and the ways in which storytelling can distort our view of other species and amplify fear.

"Wolfish" won the 2024 Oregon Book Award and was a semifinalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. A former National Writers’ Series Writer-in-Residence in Traverse City, Michigan, Erica has taught at the Orion Writers’ Workshop, the Fishtrap Gathering of Writers, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the New York Times Student Journeys, and is a forthcoming Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. Erica graduated from Bowdoin College in 2014, and received her MFA from the University of Minnesota as a College of Liberal Arts Fellow in 2018. She now lives in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.

About this webinar series:

When we care for local ecosystems — domesticated and wild, human and more-than human — it is not only healing for those ecosystems, but healing for ourselves. Hosted by Vanessa Chakour, this webinar series will welcome guests who will guide us towards everyday actions we can take to nourish the earth around us, in turn nourishing ourselves and our communities.