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Erica L. Drayton was born in the Bronx in NYC. She began writing stories almost immediately after she learned how to read and write from her mother, a former English teacher. As a gay, black, woman, Erica used storytelling as a way to express her feelings through poetry and fantasy novels at a young age.

After college, she took her continued passion for storytelling and developed it further, into writing short stories, eventually challenging herself to write 100 word stories.

She lives with her wife, young son, two dogs, and eight chickens in the Capital Region in Upstate New York.

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	The Man and the Satyr (Chronicles of Underrealm Book 4) by Erica L. Drayton (Goodreads Author), Garrett Robinson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Karen Conlin (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Eye See You: A Horror Anthology by Erica L. Drayton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katharine Kapodistria (Goodreads Author), A.P. Murphy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak; and that no form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.”
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