|
Erick da Silva Araújo, known professionally by the pseudonym Erick Julio, is a Brazilian writer whose life and creative process have been shaped by movement, cultural diversity, and ocean crossings. Since 2018, he has worked in the entertainment and hospitality industry aboard cruise ships, living among countries, languages, faces, and goodbyes that were destined to end from the very beginning. It was in this transient world, where human connections happen with intensity and speed, that Erick began to write-first as a way to organize his feelings, then as a commitment to himself, and finally as his signature in the literary world.
Throughout his career at sea, Erick moved between roles related to children's recreation and adult entertainment, balancing safety, hospitality, and memorable experiences for guests. This experience, built in multicultural and fast-paced environments, transformed the way he observes people and stories: with sensitivity, depth, and a keen eye for what doesn't need to be said to be true. For him, the sea has always served as a metaphor and a silent teacher-teaching that everything is a passage, including the versions of ourselves we leave behind before recognizing who we have become.
Erick's writing springs from longing, but not from stagnation. He writes about loves that could not last, encounters that lasted less than the journey, messages that remained in drafts, and goodbyes that were never spoken aloud. His literature explores silence not as an absence, but as fertile ground for understanding, growth, and healing. For the author, there is a poetry of its own in the words that never reached the other, because many of them needed to take the reverse path: to reach the one who wrote them before reaching anyone else.
In Whispers I Never Sent, his debut work originally written in English( now in portugusese as w SUSSURROS QUE NUNCA ENVIEI), Erick gathers undelivered letters and reflections written in cabins, hallways, and late-night hours on the deck. The book carries his vision of belonging, farewell, and self-discovery: not as sad endings, but as milestones of transformation. The author invites readers to feel without shame, to remember without holding on, and to find themselves in the process of letting go of what has already fulfilled its journey in their lives.
Signing his works as Erick Julio, the author continues to write for those who have loved from afar, lost in silence, and discovered that some absences become a direction. Because writing, for him, is always an act of crossing over, and also an act of staying, when one finally learns to return to oneself.
|
