Erika Wood
Erika is a artist, writer and designer. Before launching her web design business, she did product design for toy and gift companies, including Russ Berrie and Bloch China. She was the creator, writer and art director of a New York Film Festival Gold Medal-winning animated promo for the Sci-Fi Channel [the spot featured a stop-action alien who takes a bath in an interstellar volcanic pool--it was entitled "Get Into It"]. She is also the creator of Garboys & Gargirls™ baby gargoyle characters for books, toys and television.
Erika is the creator and co-producer of Magic Passport, a television and book series for children about the everyday lives of kids in other countries around the world. She has written a novel, entitled CLEAN, and has written a couple of childrens' books. She is the author of the Predictionary Series from Andrews & McMeel and RoundStone Press. The first two books in the series, the Wedding Predictionary and The Graduate Predictionary are available now at Amazon.com.
Erika has designed and manufactured these luxury handbags, based on vintage army bags and rucksacks, using fine home furnishings fabrics. The company is called Pollopel Bags after a little island in the Hudson River near where she lives and works which is home to an abandoned armory that looks like the ruins of a castle. Appropriately both the bags and the island are ex-military hardware made pretty by time and design.
Erika attended the NYU Fiction Writer's Masters Program, the Vermont Studio Center, graduated Swarthmore College with Honors in Philosophy, and Westtown School. She is married to Seth Gallagher, master Uilleann Pipe Craftsman, Piper, and all around marvelous guy. She has twelve nieces and nephews whom she adores and would just like to take the opportunity to mention here: Noah, Maia, Ian, Liam, Morgaine, Aurora, Aidan, Charlotte, Colm, Auden, Reilly and Dylan: fabulous people, all of them. And best of all, she is mother to the fantabulous Ronan James Wood-Gallagher [b.4/10/99] and the awe-inspring Freya Barton Wood-Gallagher [b.11/24/01].
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