Speaker | Writer | Editor | Researcher

  • Author of By Your Side: The First 100 Years Of Yuri Anime And Manga
  • Contributor to Manga A Visual History
  • Author of ACI/Net Casefile: An Inside Job
  • Editor in Chief of Dangerous Women: Tales of Queer Villainy
  • Editor for The Rose of Versailles, Volume 1-5
  • Editor for The Rose of Versailles Episodes
  • Editor for GUNJO
  • Publisher of Rica ‘tte Kanji: Tokyo Love
  • Editor for X
  • Publisher of WORKS
  • Publisher of Yuri Monogatari 6
  • Publisher of Yuri Monogatari 5
  • Publisher of Yuri Monogatari 4
  • Author of Shoujai ni Bouken
  • Publisher of Yuri Monogatari 3
  • Publisher of Yuri Monogatari 2
  • Publisher of Yuri Monogatari 1

About

Speaker | Writer | Editor| Researcher

Erica holds a Masters Degree in Library Science and a B.A. in Comparative Literature, and is a managing editor, author and lecturer.

She has lectured at events around the world and presented at film festivals, notably the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. She has participated in an academic lecture series at MIT, University of Illinois, Harvard University, Kanagawa University, Keio University and others.

Erica has written about Yuri for Japanese literary journal Eureka,  Animerica magazine, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund,  Dark Horse, Del Rey and contributed to Forbes, Slate, Huffington Post, Hooded Utilitarian, Anime News Network, Anime Herald and The Mary Sue online. She has written news and event reports, interviews Yuri creators and reviews Yuri anime, manga and related media on her blog Okazu since 2002.

She is the author of a cyberpunk novella and is the author of By Your Side: The First 100 years of Yuri Anime and Manga, published by Journey Press. She is a contributor to DK’s Manga A Visual History.

Header image: Copyright E.Friedman, 2018

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