Erica Ferencik

Erica Ferencik is a Massachusetts-based novelist, screenwriter and stand-up comic.

Erica Ferencik
BornOctober 21, 1958
Urbana, Il
Alma materBoston University
Notable worksRepeaters

Early life

Ferencik was born in Urbana, Illinois and later obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in painting and French from University of Massachusetts and later a Master of Arts in creative writing from Boston University.

Ferencik did stand-up comedy for ten years at various comedy clubs in Boston and New York and was also a material writer for David Letterman during the early years of his national late-night show.[1]

Works
  • Ghost wrote "The Mutation", one in a series by Katherine Applegate
  • Novella "The Inheritance" a finalist in 2005 Malahat Review Novella Competition
  • Wrote and made prizewinning short film "New Stepmom"
  • Frequent writer/performer for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition"

Bibliography

Novels
  • "The River at Night" -2017
  • Repeaters, Waking Dream Press - 2011[2]
  • Cracks in the Foundation, Waking Dream Press - 2008[3]

Screenplays
  • Thriller screenplay, "Mob Dot Com", co-written with Rick D'Elia, optioned by Goodman Productions

Nonfiction
  • Radio My Way, Pearson Education - 2011

Awards
  • Repeaters was awarded a starred Kirkus Review and named to Kirkus Reviews Best of 2012[4]
gollark: Liquefy nuclear waste and dilute it with lots of water, then spray it into large tracts of the ocean from planes.
gollark: I fully support the disassembly of Mercury into solar panels and nice computers.
gollark: Why not just email your trash to other people?
gollark: Apparently ternary neural networks are extant.
gollark: Our computers operate on fuzzy boolean logic, where the probability/confidence in a result is propagated with the thing itself.

References
  1. Eden, Deirdra (30 September 2011). "Interview with Author Erica Ferencik". Retrieved 2013-02-23.
  2. Ferencik, Erica (September 17, 2011). Repeaters. Waking Dream Press. ISBN 978-0981574110.
  3. Ferencik, Erica (August 15, 2008). Cracks in the Foundation. Waking Dream Press. ISBN 978-0981574103.
  4. "Repeaters". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
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