After publishing over 20 novels for adults, Erica Orloff penned the award-winning middle-grade children’s fantasy trilogy The Magickeepers (Jabberwocky) under the pen name Erica Kirov. Her books have been praised in Us Weekly and Cosmopolitan, and translated into thirteen languages. She writes regularly for publications on motherhood and complexities of family, and she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her essay “Choose Me,” on motherhood after loss. She speaks and offers workshops regularly on memoir and the power of story, as well as school author visits. She is an obsessed Yankees fan, collector of Buddha statues, mom of four, and rescue dog mom of one, the world’s perfect pit bull, ZuZu.