ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eric Burton was born in Cleveland, OH in 1985, the eldest of four siblings. His father had all but hauled ass out of dodge, leaving him to be raised by his mother in a single-parent home. A lot of his childhood was spent on the upper eastside, Broadway and Union rural areas.
The urge to create started at the age of fifteen when Eric had written his first short story. Those words were accompanied by sketches from which his mother pressed him to create.
By the age eighteen, the practice of sketching and drawing change from a past-time into a pursuit of an associate’s degree in visual communication and design.
Before he was professionally trained in graphic design, he worked a long time in retail and customer service. Those were years Eric also spent commissioning hand-drawn portraits and cartoons for clients as a side hustle, with the pages of his first novel piling up in the background.
In February of 2015, he submitted a portfolio to try out for the Gund Foundation Scholarship at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
By the grace of God, he was selected as one of fifteen students admitted to the T.I.M.E. Digital Arts department and the college had offered to pay for his first year at the university.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree, it was then he began a professional journey in visual communication and fell in love with the idea of solving problems and helping others using copyrighting and graphic design.
In 2022, he self-published his first novel, one of many he’d been writing and hoping to finish for more than a decade.