Erica Bauermeister is the best-selling author of four novels, including The School of Essential Ingredients and the 2020 Reese’s Book Club pick The Scent Keeper.

She has also written a memoir entitled House Lessons: Renovating a Life and is the co-author of two readers’ guides to books: 500 Great Books by Women and Let’s Hear It For the Girls.

Erica’s fifth novel, No Two Persons, will be published in May 2023. Her books are available on Bookshop and other bookstores.

She lives with her husband in Port Townsend, WA.

For more about Erica, visit her website and follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about how a place can affect a writer’s sense of identity as well as the choices of what actions or non-actions the writer takes within that space.