Erica Franz (b. Wisconsin) is a writer, visual artist, and technical web strategist based in the Southern California desert. Her creative practice relies heavily on automatism and intuition.
Franz approaches her illustrations and prose as a form of visual divination. Often featuring fragmented or limbless figures, her surreal works are channeled and documented before their overarching narratives are fully understood by the artist herself. This delayed resonance—the deliberate gap between creation and comprehension—is a central theme of her upcoming collection of poems and prose, Zero (2026).
Her work is deeply informed by a lifelong study of the body’s mechanics, vulnerability, and resilience. Having spent two decades as a professional horse trainer and working as a licensed neuromuscular therapist, Franz brings an anatomical awareness to her surrealism. Her lived experiences—including navigating heavy metal toxicity, a five-year stint living in a converted ambulance, and her current isolated life in a tiny house—provide a stark, physical counterweight to her highly analytical, screen-based career in web development.
Franz actively serializes her creative experiments, writings, and surrealist narratives through her publication, Paper Limbs.