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Eric Puchner

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Eric Puchner is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

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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

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  • 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

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

Novel

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Short stories

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Non-fiction

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Anthologies

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  • Best new American voices 2005, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, Francine Prose (eds), Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-15-602899-8

References

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  1. ^ "TMR: Diablo". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
  2. ^ "Authors : Eric Puchner : Interviews". Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  3. ^ "Eric Puchner's Biography | Red Room". Archived from the original on 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  4. ^ "Writers' Showcase: A Writer's Studio Faculty Reading". event.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20.
  5. ^ "Events Calendar 2009-2010". Archived from the original on 2010-04-30. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  6. ^ "Profile | KQED Public Media for Northern CA". www.kqed.org. Archived from the original on 2008-08-14.
  7. ^ "Eric Puchner Finds the Cooler Version of Himself - GQ May 2012". 9 May 2012.
  8. ^ "Braving fierce competition, 10 new Stegner Fellows selected: 05/02". 23 January 2023.
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