Erika is a documentary artist and musician based in Minneapolis. Her audio stories merge investigative journalism with music and metaphor to express things that are hard to say—whether because emotions have been too ineffable to articulate, or because very real forces and systems have coerced people into silence. Critics have lauded her “linguistic arabesques” and work that is at times “deliberately discombobulating, spinning and whirling as it feeds us provocative spoonfuls of setting and character.” She was a 2024 McKnight Media Artist Fellow and her series The Turning was the first podcast ever to receive the Livingston Award for International Reporting. The New York Times listed it in the 10 Best Podcasts of 2023, and it was named the No. 1 Podcast of the Year by The Atlantic.