Eri­ca Stern’s work has been pub­lished in The Iowa Review, Mis­sis­sip­pi Review, Den­ver Quar­ter­ly, and else­where. She has received sup­port for her writ­ing from the Ver­mont Stu­dio Cen­ter and the Vir­ginia Cen­ter for Cre­ative Arts. A New Orleans native, she lives with her fam­i­ly in Evanston, Illinois.