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Welcome to “erikaritter.com”. On this website, you can learn about my professional life as a playwright, novelist, humorist, essayist, radio broadcaster, journalist, public speaker and stage performer, with plays and prose widely produced in Canada, the United States, Britain, Japan, Israel and elsewhere. But by way of introduction, I’d like to give you a quick snapshot of me as a person.
I grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan in the 1950s and early 60s, wistful for worlds beyond. Early on, I developed an enormous love of books, movies and TV comedy and drama, an irrepressible imagination, and lots of ambition for a career in the arts. To this day, I continue to marvel at the good fortune that’s allowed me to survive—and occasionally, thrive—in arts-allied professions. For more about my personal view of writing, visit “This Writing Life”.
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Erika Ritter.Coming Up
On stage
On the page
Coming up:
The Dog by the Cradle,
The Serpent Beneath:
Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships
to be published by
Key Porter Books January 2009.The book’s title recalls one of the oldest and most compelling animal stories of all time: The sad saga of a devoted greyhound executed by his master for apparently attacking the man’s sleeping child Only after he’s killed his dog, does the master find the dead body of a serpent beneath the infant’s overturned cradle—evidence not only of the dog’s innocence, but also his courage in protecting the child from a venomous snake.