Erika Krouse has taught at Lighthouse since 2008; she is a Book Project mentor and a winner of the Lighthouse Beacon Award. Erika's recent memoir, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, won the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the 2023 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Tell Me Everything is also a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick, a Book of the Month Club pick, a People Pick, and has appeared on Best Book lists for Kirkus Reviews, Slate, BookPage, and Jezebel. Tell Me Everything is optioned for TV adaptation by Playground Entertainment and 20th Century Fox.
Contenders (novel) was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award; Come Up and See Me Sometime (short stories), was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Paterson Fiction Award. Erika's forthcoming short story collection, Save Me, will be published by Flatiron Books in 2024(ish). Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire.com, Ploughshares, One Story, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and other places. Erika has also written everything from book reviews for The New York Times to horoscopes for Glamour. The only thing she doesn’t like writing is her bio.