Erica Summers

Erica Summers is an award-winning independent filmmaker and author, artist, and film industry grip with an unwavering passion for horror. Several of her films have screened worldwide, including Obsidian, Mister White, & Loverboy (available on most streaming services.) Born and raised in Wyoming, Erica spent most of her life in the swampy American South. She now resides in southern Connecticut. In her downtime, the bizarre bisexual is typically slathered in garden dirt, fishing in the Long Island Sound, or devouring movies with her boyfriend and their Jack Russell terror. Fiction titles include: Mantis Bad God's Tower Vanity Kills Writhe (w/ H.M. Wohl) - winner of the 2024 Pencraft Award - BEST HORROR The Rictus Grin and Other Tales of Insanity The Billionaire's Assistant (as Odessa Alba) Rumspringa (As Odessa Alba) Price Slashers (w/ Chisto Healy and Mick Collins) Ensuring Your Place in Hell II (w/ Otis Bateman & Stephen Cooper) She has also published a variety of short stories, including Feed the Machine, Derailed, Tines, Two Lip Garden, and In the Blood of the Martyr (All available in The Rictus Grin) Summers also writes spicy contemporary romance novels under the pen name Odessa Alba and hilarious cozy mysteries as Trixie Fairdale.