I was recently asked to write a narrative reconstructing the final months in the life of Sigrid Stevenson (recently featured on Unsolved Mysteries)...
Andrew Erkkila
Literary suspense rooted in authentic worlds and unforgettable characters
Andrew Erkkila writes immersive novels about outsiders navigating extraordinary worlds--where authentic communities, emotional intensity, and moments of hard-won humor reveal what people become under pressure.
Andrew 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. He received a 2026 Individual Artist Finalist Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. 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.
Literary suspense rooted in authentic worlds and unforgettable characters
Andrew Erkkila writes immersive novels about outsiders navigating extraordinary worlds--where authentic communities, emotional intensity, and moments of hard-won humor reveal what people become under pressure.
Andrew 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....
Three arrests into his violent spiral, sixteen-year-old Jacob Soloway is one bad decision away from a prison cell. Instead, a judge gives him a final shot at redemption: a year at The Forge—a military academy designed to break individuals and rebuild them into new cadets.
Thrown into C Company, Jacob enters a world of relentless discipline,...
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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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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I was recently asked to write a narrative reconstructing the final months in the life of Sigrid Stevenson (recently featured on Unsolved Mysteries)...
Here is the latest and greatest:
My latest essay about a soul-destroying gut renovation on Great New American Essays.
I have a new series in the works....hoping for the first book to come out in November or so....in the meantime....holding!