Erica Summers is an award-winning author and filmmaker, an artist, a film industry grip, and a cancer survivor. Born in Wyoming, she spent most of her adult life in central Florida and southern Louisiana. She now lives by the beach in southern Connecticut. When she isn't writing or reading, she is tending her vegetable garden, solving escape room puzzles, singing karaoke, or kayak fishing.She has published a wide variety of award-winning horror and fantasy genre fiction and children's books. She also writes contemporary romance under the pen name Odessa Alba and hilarious cozy mysteries under the pen name Trixie Fairdale.