Erica D. Hearns

Erica Denise Hearns first began writing at the age of five with a story about a princess named Jasmine (which she insists was NOT based on the Disney fairytale). She was first published at the age of eight and has won numerous creative writing and oratory awards. She has published several poems and essays and even authored an advice column for the newsletter for the Horizons-Upward Bound program. She graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Central Florida in 2008.

Erica was inspired to write Altered before the Altar when she realized that the teenage and young adult women she taught needed some help putting dating, love and relationships into the proper perspective—and so did she. Altered before the Altar is Erica’s first published book.