She is the author of The Death Class: A True Story About Life, released this year from Simon & Schuster. She is also a contributing health and science writer for The Atlantic and Newsweek, and the Los Angeles editor for Narratively, a digital publication devoted to in-depth feature stories. Erika spent nearly a decade as a reporter covering breaking news and writing feature stories for the Los Angeles Times, where she was a staff metro reporter, education writer, and New York-based national correspondent. She has published more than 900 articles for the Times and various other publications including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles magazine and The Big Roundtable. Her Kindle Single, Dead or Alive, was an Amazon bestseller. @erikahayasaki