The result is “The Queen of the Tearling,” a sprawling fantasy novel set in a dystopian future. At night, though, she kept writing - this time, for herself. She gradually realized that she just couldn’t write what she calls “New Yorker fiction - people sitting in rooms, having epiphanies.”ĭiscouraged, she decided to go to law school. As a reader, Johansen loved fantasy and horror: Her favorite authors include Stephen King and Frank Herbert. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, one of the country’s premier destinations for aspiring writers.īut she says she was always out of step with the prestigious institute’s focus on literary fiction. Johansen, 36, had always made fiction writing a goal. As a young writer trying to break into the publishing world, Erika Johansen did everything right - and she couldn’t understand why everything went wrong.
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