Erica Ferencik
Erica Ferencik is a Massachusetts-based novelist, screenwriter and stand-up comic.
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Born | October 21, 1958 Urbana, Il |
Alma mater | Boston University |
Notable works | Repeaters |
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
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: The noncentral fallacy thing is where you fiddle with definitions and such to say that X is technically an A, and then get to bring along all the various connotations of A subtly.
gollark: I feel like a lot of the time someone brings up the "exact definition" of a word they mostly just mean to invoke the unlimited power of noncentral fallacy.
gollark: Also stuff like birth control.
gollark: Which is I think negatively correlated with child quantity.
gollark: Depending on how broadly you define "infertility" that actually applies to things like economic development.
References
- Eden, Deirdra (30 September 2011). "Interview with Author Erica Ferencik". Retrieved 2013-02-23.
- Ferencik, Erica (September 17, 2011). Repeaters. Waking Dream Press. ISBN 978-0981574110.
- Ferencik, Erica (August 15, 2008). Cracks in the Foundation. Waking Dream Press. ISBN 978-0981574103.
- "Repeaters". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
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