Published Work
Erikka Durdle is a writer preoccupied with what the novel form can hold: the tension of two cultures embodied in one person, the inheritance that arrives without a name, the lifelong work of understanding who we become and what we owe each other.
She is a graduate of Southern New Hampshire University's Mountainview MFA, where she received the Safford Book Prize for best fiction thesis and the Lynn Safford Memorial Prize. Her essays and poetry have appeared in riksha and Assignment Magazine, and her work is included in the anthology Boy Moms: Collective Tales of Mothers and Sons.
Her debut novel, American Pansori, follows a daughter who travels to Korea to understand the mother she thought she knew — and discovers her inheritance is not what she expected. The manuscript is complete and seeking representation.
Erikka teaches English and is a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction, where her research centers on rooted cosmopolitanism and translated literature as frameworks for bridging cultural divides in the secondary classroom — interests that extend from page to pedagogy.
She is a classically trained musician and a lifelong reader. She lives somewhere in the Deep South with her husband, her son, a thirteen-year-old beagle mutt, and a two-year-old husky.