Angelica Erskine
'23, English major
Angelica is an Indigenous woman from the Leni Lenape tribe and feels a strong connection to the earth. Nature is one of the elements that show up in her work, as does: love, death, transformation, birth, and rebirth. She won the Mary Merritt Henry Honorable Mention Award twice at Mills College at Northeastern University for her poetry. She is President of the Wild Oakland Writers club on campus and in addition to writing poetry, she explores other writing genres such as screenwriting, playwriting, memoir, and speculative fiction. She has worked on the editorial staff of a literary magazine at Portland Community College in Oregon, wrote a play which was produced by the college’s social justice theater group, and was the founder and president of the Performing Arts Club in Portland and Laney College in Oakland, where she produced several open mic events. Angelica is finishing her last semester at Mills College at Northeastern, studying abroad in romantic Rome, Italy, and will pursue her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.
