J.R. Erickson was born in Lansing, Michigan and grew up in Mason where she lived with her parents and sister on a 40 acre pseudo-farm. Pseudo because there was no planting, to speak of, just a hodge podge of creatures from pigmy goats to raccoons. In addition to nature, reading and writing were her major passions and she passed many a summer scribbling horror stories on tattered sheets of notebook paper that her cousins Matt and Jen illustrated.

She graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in Psychology and has worked in a variety of fields from weight loss counseling to social work. Writing has always been her first love and she has returned to it at every stage of her life. These days, she lives in northern Michigan with her excavator husband and her endlessly happy baby boy. Life is better when you're surrounded by water and sand dunes.

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