Erika Krouse

3 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Erika Krouse |Kevin Simpson

Who knows what a euthanizer is supposed to look like, but judging from my clients’ expressions when they answer their doors, they don’t expect a sweat-sopped middle-aged guy in overalls, nauseous from a bumpy flight or a long truck drive on a chip seal highway. Sometimes I’m greeted by a lady with a walker, or an entire family dressed in springtime colors to cheer their soon-to-be-departed loved one. Either way, they’re always relieved to see me, even me.

Jan 21, 2025 | kirkusreviews.com | Erika Krouse |Alison Espach |Sally Rooney

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard. Indeed, she's determined just where and how she will end it all: at an oceanfront hotel in Newport, where she will lie on a king-sized canopy bed and take a bottle of her cat’s painkillers.

Aug 24, 2023 | boulderweekly.com | Bart Schaneman |Erika Krouse

Denver author Erika Krouse recently won the 2023 Colorado Book Award for creative non-fiction with her memoir Tell Me Everything, an account of her time as a private investigator working a sexual assault case involving football players at an unnamed Colorado university. But it doesn’t take much in the way of detective skills to figure out that she’s writing about an institution in our own backyard: CU-Boulder.