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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 in October 2010. 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. When inspired, she still shares recipes and the occasional anecdote at www.crazysexydelicious.com.

In addition to several columns for the Star Tribune and a guest stint on City Pages’ 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.

Rivera currently freelances for KARE 11's Metromix website where she keeps Twin Citians up to date on the best local events. Rivera also created the "11 Guilty Pleasures" feature for the site which highlights a series of hedonistic delights on a different theme each month. Look for her interviews with Mason Jennings, Peter Wolf Crier, Haley Bonar and Pictures of Then, too!

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 family.