Eric puchner biography
- Eric Puchner is an American novelist and short story writer.
- Eric Puchner is an American novelist and short story writer.
- Associate Professor and Department Chair Eric Puchner is the author of four books, including a new novel, Dream State, forthcoming from Doubleday in March 2025.
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Puchner, Eric
PERSONAL: Married Katharine Noel (a novelist). Education: Attended Middlebury College and University of Arizona, Tucson.
ADDRESSES: Home—San Francisco, CA. Agent—Dorian Karchmar, William Morris Agency, 1325 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Writer and educator. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, taught English; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, faculty member, former Wallace Stegner and John L'Heureux Fellow; runs nonprofit training program for immigrants.
AWARDS, HONORS: Pushcart Prize and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, both for Music through the Floor.
WRITINGS:
Music through the Floor: Stories, Scribner (New York, NY), 2005.
Contributor of stories to anthologies and periodicals, including the Chicago Tribune, Zoetrope: All Story, Missouri Review, Glimmer Train, and Best New American Voices 2005.
SIDELIGHTS: Eric Puchner contributed numerous short stories to top literary journals before his first collection of short fiction, Music through the Floor: Stories, was pu
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Eric Puchner
American novelist and short story writer
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.
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Eric Puchner
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Eric Puchner is an assistant professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College. He has received a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His short story collection, Music Through the Floor, was a finalist for the NY Public Library's Young Lions Award. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel, and their children.
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Books:
Dream State, April 2025
Hardcover
Model Home, February 2010
Hardcover
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