Erika Somerfeld is a Los Angeles-based publicist that has worked with studios such as Universal and Warner Brothers for fifteen years. As a magazine columnist for several publications, and a blogger for various style-related companies, writing is her first language. Erika began scribing the prison, food-themed memoir of writing partner Philip Longo’s life in 2012; in ten years of research and work she has created a format that is both informative and entertaining. Confessions of a Prison Cook: A Fusion of Food & Crime is her first book.