Erica Buist

Erica is a journalist and writer based in London. She was hired as a digital journalist at the Guardian after going viral with her anonymous blog, ‘How to Be Jobless’. She has been a freelance journalist for several years and has also written for publications such as the BBC, The Sunday Times, The Mirror, Medium, ShortList, The Debrief, Refinery29, Grazia, as well as several short stories and essays in various literary journals. Erica also teaches features writing with ShoutOutUK, Guardian Masterclasses, and as part of the Guardian‘s Creative Writing and Publishing MA.

Erica’s first book, This Party’s Dead, is a hybrid of memoir and nonfiction in which, following the harrowing discovery of a loved one’s dead body, she visits seven death festivals.  It’s published in February 2021 by Unbound.