Erika Strupp-Martin

About the Author

Erika Strupp-Martin was born and raised in Germany for the first half of her childhood and the second half in Canada and America.

When she was a child, she didn’t like school, but she loved it as an adult and became addicted to learning. She attended college later in life in her early fifties. In college, she earned the reputation of a prolific writer, which she suspected may have been due to her professors having to read her long papers.

Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in the Lyceum Literary Journal, Facets Literary Journal, newspapers, and the Senior Living News of Macomb County, Michigan. In 1990, she received the “Most Distinguished Poet of the Year Award from Mayor Ronald Bonkowski of Warren, Michigan.

She has five grown children and six grandchildren and lives in beautiful and historic Washington, Michigan. She still substitutes part-time.

She walks and jogs regularly, goes to the gym, and is an avid reader. In addition, she is an artist working in oils, watercolors, and acrylics.

She loves life and loves writing about it.