[2] Eriksen spent her early childhood in Southern Jutland,[3] before she, her brother and mother relocated to Ålborg upon the death of her father in a German concentration camp in 1945.

[4] Eriksen's first book, the gender-political work Kællinger i Danmark, co-written with the film director and painter Jytte Rex was published in 1975 after the two held the Drømmen og den rasende latte exhibition the previous year.

[6][8] This was followed by Eriksen's next novel Fugletræet about the contemporary division of love and work in 1979,[3] and made her debut as a playwright with the futuristic horror Vinden er ikke til salg a year later.

[1] Eriksen wrote the science fiction series Rummet uden tid, 1–4 that includes the books Luderen fra Gomorra (1983), Nord for tiden in 1985, Dinosaurernes morgen in 1986 and Paradismaskinen in 1989, which were published between 1983 and 1989.

[2] Eriksen went on to author the novel series Sommerfugelens vinge from 1997 to 2001 that provided a contemporary historical analysis of the social development of the people of Europe at the conclusion of the 1990s.