Erika Staples
306 Canaberry Cir.
Summerville, South Carolina, United States Email: ErikaLStaples@yahoo.com
Home page: www.ErikaStaples.com
Erika Staples is a poet and author of two books,"Piece of My Soul" and "Spirals of Nature" Erika was born and raised in Summerville, South Carolina and was introduced to poetry in the fourth grade. It wasn't until the untimely death of her seventeen-year-old brother that she truly started to pour her heart and soul into her writing. Inspired by grief, worldly values, motherhood, salvation, and desires of love and the loneliness it causes. At seventeen-years-old Erika's life was given meaning, after the birth of her daughter. At eighteen, Erika started writing an abundance of poetry, and at the young age of eighteen she has two completed books that will be in print after her nineteenth birthday.
Erika is a full-time stay at home mother, and is attending college to obtain a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice. With the help and support from her parents, Erika, her daughter, along with her parents, recently moved across the country to live a secluded life in the western mountains. Erika has taken up photography, inspired by the beautiful combination of flowing plains, mountain ranges, and the immense diversity of wildlife. Erika's poems still come to life and each emotion is revealed through the truthful and painful words of poetry that God planted in her heart to share with the world. Interests: Writing poetry and novels, skiing, reading, and photographer.
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: No |
