Erica Ferencik
Erica Ferencik is a Massachusetts-based novelist, screenwriter and stand-up comic. 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 after 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. Writing career In 2022, Ferencik released the novel "Girl in Ice", a psychological suspense thriller about a linguist who travels to an island off the northwest coast of Greenland in the attempt to communicate with a young girl found frozen in the ice. Works Ghost wrote "The Mutation", one in a series by Katherine Applegate Novella "The Inheritance" a finalist in the 2005 Malahat Review Novella Competition Wrote and made the prizewinning short film "New Stepmom" Frequent writer/performer for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" Bibliography Novels "Girl in Ice", Gallery/Scout Press - 2022 "Into the Jungle", Gallery/Scout Press - 2019 "The River at Night" - 2017 "Repeaters", Waking Dream Press - 2011 Cracks in the Foundation, Waking Dream Press - 2008 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 References Living people American women novelists American thriller writers Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni Novelists from Massachusetts 21st-century American novelists American stand-up comedians Screenwriters from Massachusetts 21st-century American women writers Women thriller writers 1958 births 21st-century American comedians 21st-century American screenwriters