Eric Puchner is an American novelist, and short story writer.
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His short stories have appeared in Chicago Tribune, The Sun, The Missouri Review,[1] and Best New American Voices. He was a fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
He attended Chadwick School high school. He taught at San Francisco State University, and Stanford University.[2] He currently teaches at Claremont McKenna College. [3] [4] [5] He lives in San Francisco with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel, and their daughter.[6]
Sorry, Chekhov and Hemingway. You'd think the golden age of the short story would be now, given our increasingly short attention span. Alas, stories have almost entirely vanished from mainstream magazines, and collections are hardly first on most book publishers' lists. How exhilarating then to come across a young writer as technically gifted and emotionally insightful as Eric Puchner who is (thus far) dedicated to the short form. The nine stories in his debut collection, Music Through the Floor, are told in a classical mode - not groundbreaking in terms of form or content (misfits forced to swim against life's current), but executed with such fluency, constructed with such surprising plot twists and blessed with so many bright, memorable lines that they rise above the contemporary din.[8]