Erika has published poetry in The Fiddlehead, and received an award of excellence from Ryerson University's publishing program, as well as a writers grant from the Toronto Arts Council. With two fiction manuscripts under her belt, she is submitting her work to agents and publishers. Erika has lived and worked in Berlin, Durham, Krakow, Liverpool, London, Montreal, Nairobi, and her hometown, Ottawa, where she once sang "The Ballad of Wendel Clark" live with the Rheostatics. She now lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.