Erika Krouse

Erika is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her newest short story collection, Save Me, Stranger, was called "a dozen little masterpieces" by Adam Johnson, and Louise Erdrich said, "Read these stories with a buddy, because someone will have to scrape you off the floor." "Eat My Moose" from the collection is the winner of the 2025 Edgar Award for Best Short Story, and will be included in 2025 Best Mystery Stories of the Year and The Best American Mystery and Suspense.

Erika's memoir, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, is a New York Times Editors' Choice and winner of the Edgar Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the Housatonic Book Award. Erika's novel, Contenders, was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her previous short story collection, Come Up and See Me Sometime, was a New York Times Notable Book and winner or the Paterson Fiction Prize. Erika's short fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, One Story, and elsewhere.

Erika attended middle school and high school in Japan, and earned degrees from Grinnell College and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She teaches and mentors for the Book Project and the Portfolio Year at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, and is a winner of the Lighthouse Beacon Award for Teaching Excellence.