Erica Rivera's memoir, INSATIABLE: A Young Mother's Struggle With Anorexia, is now available in bookstores everywhere from Penguin Group! INSATIABLE has been featured on Fox News, Showcase Minnesota, Twin Cities Live, KFAI, and radio programs and websites nationwide. Rivera has read at events at Bryant Lake Bowl, Storefront-in-a-Box, Hamline University and Macalester College.
Rivera's second book is the erotic food memoir Man Eater: Seductive Stories & Mouthwatering Meals, now available on Amazon.com. Rivera also designed, launched and blogged on the Man Eater website for a year-and-a-half. Twin Cities foodies, musicheads and infatuation junkies were so entranced, City Pages featured Rivera in a full-page spread for their "Celebrity Eats" column. Rivera no longer blogs under the Man Eater moniker but select excerpts remain on the site.
Rivera's food writing is included in the Gotta Have It, Let Them Eat Crepes and The Tattoo Series anthologies. Her Black and White Cake won the Best Original Recipe prize in the 2008 Food Tasters for Obama Bake-Off, her Gingerbread House won Brett Olson's 2010 Gingerbread House Challenge, her food photography has been chosen multiple times for Foodbuzz's Top 9 and is featured in Schmap's Guide to New York. Rivera has been recruited to review products from Godiva, Tyson, Duncan Hines, Uncle Ben's, Nature's Pride, Magnum, Ore Ida, Azteca, Newton's, Bird's Eye, Land O' Lakes, and the National Peanut Board. When inspired, she still shares recipes and the occasional anecdote at www.crazysexydelicious.com.
In 2011, Rivera was hired by KARE 11 to write for the station's Metromix website. Rivera interviewed such notable artists as Rachael Yamagata, Dawes, Marketa Irglova (Academy Award winner for "Once"), Mason Jennings, Haley Bonar, Peter Wolf Crier, Little Scream, Pictures of Then, Chastity Brown and Buddy "The Cake Boss" Valastro.
Rivera also created the 11 Guilty Pleasures feature for the site which highlighted a series of hedonistic delights on a different theme each month.
Rivera recently joined KFAI radio's Live From Studio 5 team, where she books bands for in-studio sessions, interviews musicians, and reports on the local music scene. Rivera also launched the program's blog and writes the Earworm of the Week and Behind The Scenesters features.
In addition to several columns for the Star Tribune and a guest stint on the Gimme Noise blog, Rivera's creative non-fiction has been featured in Writers' Journal and Moon Journal, and LaChance Publishing's Voices of Breast Cancer anthology. Her photography is often published on l'etoile magazine's LOL/OMG blog.
Rivera received her B.A. in Psychology and Spanish at Macalester College in 2001. After graduation, she worked as an advocate for battered women and a counselor in a residential treatment center for adolescents. She is currently available for editing, writing, and photographic freelance services.
Rivera is a three-time marathon runner with a PR of 3:14:10. She was also formally trained in yoga at Yoga Center of Minneapolis in 2008 and she is an avid practitioner of both Hatha and Kundalini yoga.
Rivera is a lifelong Minnesotan, where she lives with her two daughters.
