Erika Morillo

Erika Morillo is a Dominican-born photographer and writer who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her memoir Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir came out from the University of Iowa Press in 2024. The memoir combines family history, archival photographs, film stills, and news clippings to examine her father's disappearance under the Balaguer regime, the erasure of family images, and her relationship with her mother. It also covers her life in New York and Chile and her experience of motherhood. The book was a 2024 NBCC Award finalist in Autobiography and was shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in nonfiction.