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Erica Martin

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Born

in Memphis, The United States

Website

https://ericamartinwrites.com/

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Genre

Young Adult, Nonfiction, Historical Fiction

Influences

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 — 1,137 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 — 558 ratings — published 2024	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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“Sometimes
the only way
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lose it
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― 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
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and with more
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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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