Author and Black Hawk College alumni, Cheryl Eriksen, will be at Black Hawk East College campus for a book signing. Eriksen is the author of several books, including, “Follow Me, Friend: A Memoir of Undiagnosed PTSD, “Healing Power of the Horse-Human Relationship,” and “I’ve Never Been to Me: One Woman’s Search for Purpose and the Horse That Showed Her the Way.”

The book signing is scheduled for 7 pm on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at the campus library. Books will be available for purchase with cash or PayPal.

Eriksen is a horse professional and graduated from BHC in 1998. She trained and showed the APHA circuit for local horseman Danny Conner and worked as a veterinary assistant for the late Dr. Schwerbrock.

After leaving Illinois in 2002, she worked in multiple areas of the horse industry, finding her niche working as a horse midwife and prepping sales horses for the well-known Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky.

In 2009, she returned to school to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work with a focus on equine-assisted therapy. She currently divides her time as an author and a speaker on equine behavior and communication specialist focusing on the horse-human relationship. Eriksen works seasonally as a horse midwife for multiple thoroughbred farms in Kentucky.

Her memoir, “Follow Me, Friend,” tells the story of living with undiagnosed PTSD from a trauma she has no conscious memory of and the healing she found working with one special horse.

For more information on the event, contact Cat Broady in the BHC Library at broadyc@bhc.edu.