Andrew Erkkila
Andrew Erkkila

Andrew Erkkila is a former Gila Hotshot with four seasons of fire experience. He has fought fire in most of the western U.S. In 2011, he was honored with the S.W.E.A.T. Award (Superior Work Ethic and Teamwork). 

He graduated from the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, The Master's Review, the New Orleans Review and was listed as a finalist in the 2019 Zoetrope All-Story Screenplay Contest judged by Francis Ford Coppola and as a finalist in the Missouri Review’s 2019 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. His work has also been featured on the Great New American Essays podcast and optioned for television. 

He is adjunct faculty at the The College of New Jersey and Rutgers-Newark Writing Program.

Books

How to Catch a Doppelgänger

Book 1

Welcome to Hillcrest! Home to McMansions, restless rich teens, and doppelgängers.

It’s senior year, and no one is readier to graduate from being the most unpopular misfits in school than Lola Strange and Lucie Bloodwagon, hosts of the offbeat podcast, The Hillcrest Triangle.

But one spring day, a local teen vanishes. Her boyfriend, Trent...

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American Fire

Wild and uncompromising, Tanya, a veteran hotshot on an elite New Mexico wildfire crew, is fighting for her livelihood. Blacklisted from her job, estranged from her family, and threatened with the loss of her home, Tanya must prove herself to battle-hardened Bronson, the crew’s superintendent. Yet when Tanya discovers Bronson’s disturbing...

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The Aftersummer

Set in Barcelona, The Aftersummer follows Benjamin Lazarus, an unwitting attempted suicide haunted by the dybbuk of his deceased grandfather, who stumbles into the crosshairs of an international conspiracy when he is enlisted to piece together the story of Amela K, the abducted widow of a reclusive author. As Lazarus sorts through a mysterious...

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Other Writing

 Here is the latest and greatest:My latest essay about a soul-destroying

Here is the latest and greatest:

My latest essay about a soul-destroying gut renovation on Great New American Essays.

Holden Caulfield Builds a House -- Prairie Schooner 2023

The Danbury Firebirds, The Master's Review (pretty funny story about a losing baseball team).

An Alumnus Dad Loses Sleep (also pretty funny essay) TCNJ

Catching the Firebug (essay) TCNJ

A Kind of Flight (poem) New Orleans Review

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Latest Updates

New Stuff I have a new series in the works....hoping for the first book to

I have a new series in the works....hoping for the first book to come out in November or so....in the meantime....holding!

Contact

Feel free to reach out to me. No praise is too heartfelt, no message too weird.