Rollie Erickson is an artist whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and abroad. His work has been reproduced in various catalogs and in Art in America, 1984–85 Guide to Galleries, Museums, Artists. He is the founder of Wordimage, a single-issue magazine that explored text-imagery as well as contemporary surrealist poetry. In 2017, he published Night Palaces, his first book of poetry. His poetry has also appeared in: Asheville Poetry Review, Art/Life, and O!! Zone.

Rollie has a BFA from Purchase College SUNY and an MLIS in library studies from The University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Gentleman of the Road: A Hitchhiking Memoir of the 1970s is his first book of prose.