Erica Ferencik (born October 21, 1958) 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 Ghostwrote "The Mutation", a novel in the Animorphs series by K. A. 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
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