Erika Owen

Erika Owen is a freelance writer specializing in home and travel. She writes about home products for The Spruce. 

Highlights

• Written for The Spruce since March 2019
• Written for Vogue.com, Travel + Leisure, Departures, Bon Appétit, Healthyish, Epicurious, Martha Stewart Living, The Points Guy, Jetsetter, and more
• Author of ​The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life, published by Simon & Schuster’s Tiller Press.

 

Experience

Erika Owen is a freelance writer whose work can be seen on The Spruce, Fast Company, GQ, Martha Stewart Living, Travel + Leisure, Bon Appétit, and Epicurious. Today, she runs audience development for Architectural Digest, while freelance writing—mostly about Iceland—in her down time.

 

Education

Erika received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Drake University.

 

About The Spruce

The Spruce, a Dotdash brand, is a new kind of home website offering practical, real-life tips and inspiration to help you create your best home. The Spruce family of brands, including The Spruce, The Spruce Eats, The Spruce Pets, and The Spruce Crafts collectively reach 30 million people each month.

For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the Internet according to comScore, a leading Internet measurement company, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Our brands collectively have won more than 20 industry awards in the last year alone and, most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.