Postcards from Grief
In 2026, Erin Baker’s partner of 13 years died, months after her father. Rather than retreat, she decided to grieve in public: honestly, sometimes funnily, and without tidying it up.
Postcards from Grief is the diary she started on Substack in June 2026. It now has more than 1,000 subscribers, and her writing on loss has followed in The Times, on BBC Radio 4 and on podcasts here and abroad.
Speaking and writing about grief
Erin speaks about grief, resilience and keeping going at work, for conferences, workplaces and wellbeing events, and writes on loss for newspapers and magazines.
For speaking, commissions, and literary or publishing enquiries, get in touch.
In The Times
My partner died. Then I found a text: ‘Shall we have an affair?’ (October 2026)
How I found peace amid grief on a mini-break with my son (Travel, August 2026)
He died on a sunny morning. Now I feel I have a terminal illness (June 2026)
My world fell apart in weeks (Times Magazine, January 2026)
Listen
Crisis What Crisis? with Andy Coulson: the full conversation (August 2026)