Erika Hoffman

Erika Hoffman pens inspirational, nonfiction essays that appear in anthologies, magazines, and ezines. Her stories can be found in 16 Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and her true tales are featured regularly in Sasee of Myrtle Beach. Hoffman’s advice on writing humor has appeared in The Writer, and her essays on the craft have been published in the online Funds for Writers magazine, The Writers’ Table section of the Page & Spine ezine, and in the AUTHOR ezine. Additionally, Hoffman has taught a course on composing the personal essay for the Olli Institute at Duke University, several semesters including the winter/spring 2025. In the spring of 2018, she taught at the Durham Rescue Mission where she helped the homeless, the addicted, and inmates on work release record their stories. Hoffman has produced more than 460 published essays and stories. In March 2019, her mystery Why Mama was published by Library Partners Press of Wake Forest University. In May 2019, she was a presenter at the Triangle Area freelancers conference called WRITE NOW in Raleigh. Hoffman lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. In January 2023, she led a workshop on penning the personal essay for Carteret Writers down in Morehead City, NC

She's compiled her published essays into several anthologies: Erika's Take on Writing; Erika's Take 2; Erika's Take 3; Erika's Take 4; My Sassy Life; More Sassy Stories; The Sassiest Stories, Sassy Stories #4; Eighty-two Sassy Stories. Also, there's a collection of travel articles she calls Erika's Take on Travel and Erika's Take on Travel 2+. In addition, Erika's essays and stories have appeared in four TAF anthologies as well as in four anthologies compiled by Randell Jones.