About Erica Gallegos

During the workday, Erica helps businesses reduce their environmental footprint, but she spends her evenings developing fantasy worlds!

 

She mainly operates in the fantasy, sci-fi, and adventure genres (but never omits a slow-burning romantic subplot). She aims to write inclusively, diversely, and boldly enough that someday, bigoted white men will label her a "Nasty Woman."

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Her writing journey began in fifth grade when she wrote and illustrated her first book, Running Rain. Thirteen years later, she became a paid "Wattpad Creator" on the storytelling platform—namely for her YA Dystopian Fantasy series, The Ephemeral, which she drafted in high school. While on Wattpad, her novel Breeder won a Watty Award, and in 2022, she was asked to speak on a worldbuilding panel at WattCon (LA). ​