Now several years into her career as a novelist, polymath Erica Ferencik came to it by way of careers as a painter and a stand-up comedian. Ferencik started as a fine artist and painter and received her undergraduate degree from UMass Boston. She later spent ten years performing as a stand-up comedian, even doing some writing for David Letterman at the Late Show. Her first book was a satirical novel, Cracks in the Foundation, published in 2008. Her second novel was Repeaters, a contemporary fantasy novel that Kirkus called “gripping” in a starred review. Her latest is The River at Night, which Entertainment Weekly called “a visceral, white knuckle rush.”