Eckhard Gerdes
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Eckhard Gerdes (born 1959) is an American novelist and editor. He earned his MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He is the author of six published novels:
- Projections [1986, Depth Charge Press]
- Ring in a River [1989, Depth Charge Press]
- Truly Fine Citizen [1992, Highlander Press]
- Cistern Tawdry [2002, Fugue State Press]
- Przewalski's Horse [2006, Red Hen Press]
- The Million-Year Centipede, or, Liquid Structures [2007, Raw Dog Screaming Press]
His work reflects experimental technique, sometimes ignoring time, space, or cause-and-effect, in the service of stories of individuals struggling to transcend fear and limitation.
Reviews of his work have appeared in Rain Taxi, Notre Dame Review, and Review of Contemporary Fiction among many others.
Eckhard Gerdes is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, issues of which are usually Festschrifts on a single writer (e.g. John Barth, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe). He has also written on modern and post-modern literature for Review of Contemporary Fiction, Hyde Park Review of Books, and other magazines.
Gerdes has twice been the recipient of the Richard Pike Bissell Creative Writing Award. He lives in Chicago; he has three children.
