Eric Cecil was born and raised in Louisville KY. He is a 1984 Young Author Award Winner and holds a History degree from the University of Kentucky. He had a sudden spiritual experience in the summer of 2001. Eric began writing from that experience. In his final year in college, horrific terror attacks occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001. Eric sought a solution to violence. Eric published A-Train Blues in 2006, God’s Children in 2008, The Lifting of the Veil in 2013 and The Song of the Spirit
In A-Train Blues, Eric Cecil becomes the haunted voice of America, lost in the ashes of September 11, 2001. Politically observant and painstakingly autobiographical, Cecil works out the hopes and dreams of humanity in “In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in “Conscience Alone” and discovers “The Word of God.” Through a journey of madness and heartache, hope remains. “I still believe that even from smoldering ashes on earth, that love with ascend to the throne of the moral universe and peace will reign.
Eric Cecil explores being a consumer advocating for social justice in the mental health field. God’s Children links the spiritual health of community, country and world to the recovery of men and women living in the mental health system, illustrated in such poems as “Plight” “Sunday Morning Rambling Blues,” “Advocate” and “God’s Children.” An unforgettable autobiographical look at severe mental illness, God’s Children offers hope for those suffering from it.