Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Erik lives in San Diego, where he writes and subsists on a diet of coffee and tacos. He has published six books for YA and middle grade readers under the In A Bind Books imprint. He is currently working on the Dotty Morgan Supernatural Sleuth series. His short stories can be found in A Year Ink 4 & 14, The Guilded Pen 2019, CoffinBell, Frontier Tales, Tales to Terrify podcast, HauntedMTL, and other online journals. Erik is a member of the SCBWI and the San Diego Writers and Editors Guild (SDWEG). Erik loves all things books. He is a former bookstore owner (In A Bind Books in Lakewood, Ohio opened in 2000 and closed 2 years later), former slush reader at Dark Recesses Press, and former library employee. Besides writing, Erik loves to read authors such as Vonnegut, Moorcock, Pratchett, Louis L'Amour, and Douglas Adams.
