Erika Krouse

Future Press

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Past Press

For Save Me, Stranger

Collection of short stories, published January 21, 2025

Here’s some press about my recent collection, Save Me, Stranger:

Reviews:

• ✶Kirkus starred review (Oct 2024)

• ✶Booklist starred review (Nov 2024)

• ✶Shelf Awareness review (Nov 2024) and Book of the Week (Jan 24, 2025)

• Los Angeles Times review (Jan 2025)

• Library Journal review (Jan 2025)

• Publishers Weekly review (Oct 2024)

• Rocky Mountain Reader review (Jan 2025)

• People Magazine (Jan 2025)

• Publishers Weekly review for BAMS (Aug 2025)

Lists and mentions:

• SheReads/ Most Anticipated Short Stories of 2025 (Nov 2024)

• Chicago Review of Books / 12 Must Read Books of January (Jan 2025)

• Vulture / Most Anticipated Books of 2025 (Jan 2025)

• LitHub / 22 New Books Out Today (Jan 2025)

• Los Angeles Times / The Week in Books (Jan 2025)

• Largehearted Boy playlist (Feb 2025)

• Auraist / Best-written recent releases (Mar 2025)

• Westword / Book It: Ten Best New Summer Reads by Colorado Authors (July 2025)

Interviews, print/online:

• Publishers Weekly End Notes (Jan 2025)

• Westword interview with Teague Bohlen / Erika Krouse on Save Me, Stranger, Her New Short-Story Collection (Jan 2025)

• Chicago Review of Books interview with Tryphena Yeboah / “Humor is our best defense against despair” (Jan 2025)

• Rocky Mountain Reader interview with D'Arcy Fallon / On saving each other, luck and quantum entanglement (Jan 2025)

• 303 Magazine interview with Sarah Ann Noel / Talking with Colorado Writer Erika Krouse (Feb 2025)

• Book Q&A with Deborah Kalb (Feb 2025)

• Auraist / ‘Some people may be too sane to be good writers.' (May 2025)

• Colorado Public Radio / Colorado Matters / ‘Short stories are like watching a streaker. You see everything.’ (Sep 2025)

Podcasts and radio:

• Writer’s Bone, Episode 693: Erika Krouse with Daniel Ford (Jan 2025)

• Book Public: 'Save Me, Stranger' by Erika Krouse with Yvette Benavides (Jan 2025)

• Finding the Magic with Tricia Copeland (Jan 2025)

• Tea, Tonic, and Toxin with Carolyn Daughters and Sarah Harrison (Feb 2025—focus is Tell Me Eerything)

• First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing with Mitzi Rapkin (Mar 2025)

• Radio Bookclub: Save me Stranger, KGNU (Mar 2025)

• Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub with Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian (Mar 2025)

• Small Acts of Rebellion with Heather Pridemore (March 2025)

• Let’s Deconstruct a Story with Kelly Fordon and Caitlin Horrocks (June 2025)

Honors:

• “Eat My Moose” nominated for a 2025 Edgar Award, Short Story category (Jan 2025)

• People Magazine “People Pick” (Feb 2, 2025)

• “Eat My Moose” is the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Short Story (May 2025)

• “Eat My Moose” will appear in the anthology, 2025 Best Mystery Stories of the Year by Mysterious Press, edited by John Grisham + Otto Penzler and coming out in October 2025.

• “Eat My Moose” will appear in the anthology, Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025, edited by Steph Cha and Don Winslow and coming out in October 2025.

For Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

Memoir, published March 2022.

Here’s some press about Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation:

Honors:

• Housatonic Award for Nonfiction / Western Connecticut State University (September 2023)

• Colorado Book Award winner for Creative Nonfiction / Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book (June 2023)

• Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime / Mystery Writers of America (April 2023)

• Slate / The 10 Best Books of 2022, by Laura Miller (December 2022).

• Jezebel / The 10 Best Books We Read That Came Out This Year, by Nora Biette-Timmons (December 2022)

• Reckon / Best of 2022: 17 books we reckoned with this year (December 21, 2022)

• Kirkus / Best Nonfiction Books of the Year (December 2022)

• BookPage / Best Nonfiction of 2022 (December 2022)

• The New York Times Book Review / Editors’ Choice: Staff Picks From the Book Review (5/15/22)

• People Magazine / People Picks (4/4/22)

• Modern Mrs. Darcy / What Should I Read Next episode 361: 2022 reads that stood out (December 2022)

• The New York Times / 11 New Books We Recommend This Week (5/12/22)

• The Week / Author of the Week (4/15/22)

• Harper’s Bazaar / The Best Beach Reads of 2022 (4/19/22)

Reviews:

• The Washington Post—Books / “Meet the P.I. who helped unlock key testimony in a sexual assault case,” by Marion Winik (3/29/22)

• The New York Times Book Review / “She Became a Private Eye. And Investigated Her Past,” by Patrick Hoffman (3/16/22)

• Slate / “The Unreliable Narrator,” by Laura Miller (She’s badass) (3/14/22)

• Air Mail / “Inside Job,” by Sarah Weinman (3/9/22)

• ✶BookPage / Starred Review by Alice Cary (3/1/22)

• ✶Library Journal / Starred Review by Mattie Cook (2/1/22)

• ✶Kirkus / Starred Review (1/15/22)

• ✶Publishers Weekly / Starred Review (11/12/21)

• Booklist / Review by Kathleen McBroom (1/15/22)

• New York Journal of Books / Review by Paul LaRosa

Features and mentions:

• Boulder Weekly / Boulder PI / Bart Schaneman (8/24/23)

• Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine / The power of speaking up / Clay Bonnyman Evans (7/5/23)

• Daily Camera / Boulder Bookshelf: …Erika Krouse nabs honor for memoir/crime mashup about Title IX (6/21/23)

• Colorado Sun / 2023 Colorado Book Awards honor winners in 16 categories at Colorado Springs celebration (6/22/23)

• What Should I Read Next? podcast with Anne Bogel / Ep 361: Anne's Best Books of 2022 (January 2022)

• What’s the Story? / Joy Lanzendorfer review (January 2022)

• Goodreads / Goodreads Members' Top 72 Hit Books of the Year (So Far) (6/12/22)

• LitHub / What Should You Read Next? (3/18/22)

• Real Simple / Books page (March 2022 issue)

• ELLE / The Best of Spring Nonfiction (March 2022 issue)

• CrimeReads / Book excerpt (3/18/22), Best New Crime Nonfiction Feb/March (3/29/22)

• CrimeReads / Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2022, by Molly Odintz (1/6/22) and

• BookPage / 2022 Preview: Most Anticipated Nonfiction (1/10/22)

• The Millions / A Year in Reading: Melissa Febos (12/20/21)

• Largehearted Boy / Erika Krouse's Playlist for Her Memoir Tell Me Everything (4/11/22—This site asks authors to compile Spotify “soundtracks” to their books)

• Denver Post / American Dude Ranch, Tell Me Everything, and More Books to Read this Month (4/27/22)

• Modern Mrs. Darcy Summer Reading Guide (4/23/22)

• 5280 Magazine / 4 New Local Books to Inspire Your Summer Bucket List (June 2022)

• The Sentinel / Required reading: 5 books for a modern summer reading list (6/2/22)

• AdviceToWriters / ATW Interviews: Erika Krouse (6/14/22)

• Boulder Magazine / BoCo Bookshelf : Summer 2022 (July 2022)

• LitHub / Erika Krouse on Why the Subtitle of Her Memoir Should Be How I Became an Asshole

Print/Online Interviews:

• CrimeReads / “Use Yourself,” by Lisa Levy (3/31/22)

• LitHub / “Writer Erika Krouse On Her Time As A Private Investigator,” by Molly Odintz (3/25/22)

• BookPage / “Erika Krouse, private eye,” by Alice Cary (March 2022)

• Westword / “Tell Her Everything: Writer Erika Krouse’s Memoir Tackles Colorado History,” by Teague Bohlen (3/17/22 and 6/11/23)

• BOMB Magazine / “Opposing Groupthink without a Template: Erika Krouse Interviewed by Sean Hooks” (3/18/22)

• Colorado Sun / “SunLit Interview” (3/21/22)

• The Ambassador / “Tell Us Everything” (Spring 2022)

• Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb / (4/9/22)

• The Coachella Review / “TCR Interviews with Erika Krouse, by Kaia Gallagher”

• Summer Sundays/ interview with Summer Suleiman

• CU Independent / With athletics in the spotlight, CU Boulder’s handling of sexual misconduct raises concerns again

Podcasts and Radio Interviews:

• AuthorTopia podcast / Erika Krouse: The Secret to Spotting Dark Secrets, Episode 3

• Turn the Page live with Ryan Warner at Colorado Public Radio / Full podcast, or Tell Me Everything segment

• LBB Presents Online (3/16/22)

• City Cast Denver podcast / “How…Football's Sexual Assault Scandal Set a Precedent for #MeToo” (3/17/22)

• Wisconsin Public Radio BETA / “I look familiar. I look ordinary: How Erika Krouse's face launched her career as a private investigator”

• Pursuit Magazine / March Webinar: Tell Me Everything. Topic: techniques for interviewing witnesses.

• Good Morning Arizona / Olivia’s Book Club podcast

• Finding the Magic podcast / S2 E20 with author Erika Krouse of Tell Me Everything

• I’m A Writer But podcast / Erika Krouse

• Book Dreams podcast / Ep 117: Tell Me Everything, with Erika Krouse

• Boulder Book Store and KGNU Radio Bookclub Live / Radio Bookclub: Tell Me Everything – The Story of a Private Investigation and Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub: Erika Krouse

• North County Public Radio / North Country Bookmarks September ‘22

• Drinks with Tony podcast / Erika Krouse #211

Book Clubs:

• Book of the Month Club / March 2022 pick

• Literary Masters / Winter 2022-3 pick

• Belletrist / STACKED (3/23/22 ) and BRIEF (3/24/22)

• Books, Brunches, & Booze book club (Zoom) / April 2022 pick

• Emory University’s Continuing Ed Book Club (Zoom) / 4/25/23

• Longmont American Association of University Women All Branch Read (Zoom) / 11/7/23

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