Erica Lorraine Scheidt is a writer and a pre-service high school teacher in Oakland. Her young adult novel, Uses for Boys was a 2014 PEN Center Literary Award finalist, named a Best First Book for Youth by the American Library Association’s Booklist, and a 2014 Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. A longtime 826 Valencia volunteer, she is the founder of Berkeley Writers’ Workshop and is a teaching artist at Chapter 510, a made-in-Oakland literacy and writing project. Erica has an MA in creative writing from the University of California, Davis and a BA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University and was a 2012 Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. In this project, she's thinking out loud about becoming a high school teacher.
Contact Erica at elscheidt@gmail.com