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
- 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"
Novels
- "Girl in Ice", Gallery/Scout Press - 2022
- "Into the Jungle", Gallery/Scout Press - 2019
- "The River at Night" - 2017
- "Repeaters", Waking Dream Press - 2011Cracks in the Foundation, Waking Dream Press - 2008
Screenplays
- Thriller screenplay, "Mob Dot Com", co-written with Rick D'Elia, optioned by Goodman Productions