Ericka K.F.Simpson was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. Her passion for writing began in grade school when she started writing poetry. In high school, she pretended she was a newspaper sports writer and wrote articles about her experiences on the basketball team. Those articles later turned into short stories and soon evolved into a full length novel. Ericka is now a self-published author of five books: I am Your Sister, In Fear of Losing You, Making Our Difference, Reality Check and the newly released, Jazzy Ladies Productions. She has also published her first non-fiction work entitled, "Living With 3 Strikes Against Me". This book is a collection of her thoughts on subjects ranging from women, love, religion and the LGBT community. Also highlighted are poems Ericka has written dating back to her middle school years. In June 2010, Ericka won the Black Writers Reunion and Conference 2010 Atlanta Scholarship Competition. She currently lives in Macon, GA where she is finishing her Bachelors degree in Organizational Psychology and finishing her sixth fiction novel, bringing her total number of books published to seven.