In this interview, Erica Green talks about how she's kept the arc of her career, stayed true to her love of working with words, and created a truly fabulous event that gathers together authors, writers, and readers from around the world: the Iceland Writers Retreat.

Bio: Erica Jacobs Green has worked in book publishing for twenty-five years. Highlights of Erica’s publishing career include positions as a children’s book editor at Chronicle Books, Director of Publishing at Discovery Channel (Discovery Communications), and Vice President, Editorial Director for Kids Books at National Geographic.

As a freelance writer and editor, her articles and short stories have appeared in anthologies, newspapers, and online. Erica has worked with award-winning authors and illustrators as well as an array of famed brands for children and adults: from Jane Goodall to Star Wars and Kwame Alexander to Williams Sonoma.

Currently, Erica runs the Iceland Writers Retreat and Iceland Readers Retreat as well as WonderLab Group, LLC, both of which she co-founded. Originally from California, she’s spent over a decade abroad as an EFM at posts in Northern Ireland, Turkey, Russia, Iceland, and Poland. She now resides in Washington, DC.