Eric Puchner Explained

Eric Puchner is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

His short stories have appeared in Tin House, Chicago Tribune, The Sun, The Missouri Review,^[1] and Best New American Voices. He was a fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His story, "Beautiful Monsters", was selected by Tom Perrotta for the 2012 edition of The Best American Short Stories.

He attended Chadwick School high school. He taught at San Francisco State University, Stanford University, and Claremont McKenna College.^[2] He currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University.^{[3] [4] [5]} He lives in Baltimore with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel, and their sons, Simon and Clem.^{[6] [7]}

Awards

• Pushcart Prize XXVIII
• Wallace Stegner Fellowship ^[8]
• 2006 National Endowment for the Arts grant
• Music Through the Floor, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.
• PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

Work

• Animals Here Below . Zoetrope: All Story. 9. 3 . Fall 2005.
• Children of God. Zoetrope: All Story. 6. 4 . Winter 2002.

Novel

• Model Home: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, 2010,

Short stories

• Book: Music Through the Floor. Simon and Schuster. 2005. 978-0-7432-7046-5 .
• Last Day on Earth. 2017

Non-fiction

• I MARRIED A NOVELIST . Canteen . 4 . 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090520042341/http://therumpus.net/2009/04/i-married-a-novelist/ . May 20, 2009 .

Anthologies

• Best new American voices 2005, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, Francine Prose (eds), Harcourt, 2004,

External links

• Author's website
• "Eric Puchner", KQED
• Interview with Eric Puchner at Simon & Schuster
• Interview with Eric Puchner, The Southeast Review

Notes and References

1. Web site: TMR: Diablo . 2009-05-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727090033/http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/text_detail.php?text_id=237 . 2011-07-27 . dead .
2. Web site: Authors : Eric Puchner : Interviews . 2010-03-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120304185432/http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Eric-Puchner/27958269/interview . 2012-03-04 . dead .
3. Web site: Eric Puchner's Biography | Red Room . 2010-03-21 . https://archive.today/20120907164509/http://www.redroom.com/author/eric-puchner/bio . 2012-09-07 . dead .
4. Web site: Writers' Showcase: A Writer's Studio Faculty Reading . event.stanford.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720045327/http://event.stanford.edu/events/177/17745/ . 2011-07-20.
5. Web site: Events Calendar 2009-2010 . 2010-03-21 . 2010-04-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100430111825/http://www.stanford.edu/group/creativewriting/events.html . dead .
6. Web site: Profile KQED Public Media for Northern CA . www.kqed.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080814223025/https://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=1284 . 2008-08-14.
7. Web site: Eric Puchner Finds the Cooler Version of Himself - GQ May 2012. 9 May 2012.
8. Web site: Braving fierce competition, 10 new Stegner Fellows selected: 05/02. 23 January 2023 .