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Erica Martin

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Born

in Memphis, The United States

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Genre

Young Adult, Nonfiction, Historical Fiction

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Lauren DeStefano, Maggie Stiefvater, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Anaïs Ni ...more

Member Since

July 2020

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Erica Martin is a poet and a freelance editor.

Her debut poetry collection, AND WE RISE, was published in 2022 by Viking Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House. It was an ABA Indies Introduce selection, as well as an ABA Indie Next pick. Additionally, a poem from this collection was featured by Oprah Daily.

She was one of three editors who oversaw the poetry anthology POEMHOOD, published in 2024 by HarperTeen/HarperCollins. It went on to receive four starred reviews and was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.

ONWARD, WE MARCHED, her debut picture book, is forthcoming from Flamingo Books/Penguin Random House, October 2026.

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	And We Rise 4.31 avg rating — 1,144 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	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
	Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology – Diverse Voices from Ancestors Celebrating Heritage and Joy by Amber McBride (Goodreads Author) (editor), Erica Martin (Goodreads Author) (editor), Taylor Byas (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.21 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	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's not because I want to make out with her."
Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“Sometimes
the only way
to catch
your breath
is to
lose it
completely.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

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“I love you,
in ways
you've never been
loved,
for reasons you've never been
told,
for longer than you think you
deserved
and with more
than you will ever know existed
inside
me.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

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“I do not know
if I
will ever be
complete,
but I know
whatever I am,
You
will always be
the rest of
me.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series

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“The greatest magic in the world is an open mind.”
― Sofiya Pasternack, Anya and the Dragon

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