Erica Zora Wrightson is a journalist, editor, oral historian, and poet from Los Angeles, CA, who has worked for newspapers, museums, and nonprofits for the past decade. She is currently the Managing Editor of Publications at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a freelance journalist. Her poetry, prose, food writing, and other non-fiction have been published in the Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Pasadena Magazine, The Squaw Valley Review, Slake: Los Angeles, and Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition. She writes about proximities, distances, and the ingredients of place. Her piece "Artichoke" was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2011. She graduated from Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts program in 2015.