Lawyer-turned-novelist Erika Holzer has a B.S. degree from Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law.

After specializing in labor law with the Manhattan firm Battle, Fowler, Stokes & Kheel, as well as teaching labor law at Fairleigh Dickinson University, she practiced constitutional and appellate law with her husband, Henry Mark Holzer.