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Erica Olson

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Erica Olson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and, after various moves around Montana and Idaho, grew up in Plains, Montana, population 1,050. As a child, she loved to write stories about talking animals (usually horses or wolves).

In 2003, Erica left for Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania. She spent a year abroad at Oxford University in England, where she imagined that she walked in the steps of great people and that she would achieve greatness, too. While at Oxford, she filled countless notebook pages with philosophical musings and the seeds of stories.

Erica graduated from Penn in 2007 with a major in European history and a minor in philosophy. In 2008, she left for graduate school in St. Andrews, Scotland, now studying C
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I love the satisfaction of clicking “publish” on a blog post. Ding! Done, there’s the result.


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I miss that immediate payoff when I work on my novel, Glorious Fools. I’ve been slogging along for three years, which is way too long for a first novel. I want to write so many other things! Still, I can’t find the discipline to bang out the last few chapters.


It’s not like setting goals is toug

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Published on April 23, 2014 09:09
Average rating: 4.0 · 14 ratings · 8 reviews · 14 distinct works
The Kings of Cantium

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“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
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