Eric Puchner is the author of the novel “Model Home” (to be published in February 2010) and the story collection “Music Through the Floor.”
“An awe-inspiring debut,” said Entertainment Weekly of “Music Through the Floor.” “Puchner’s great strength: the ability to chronicle the oddest of behaviors with a humane, unsparing voice.” Added the New York Times: “How exhilarating to come across a young writer as technically gifted and emotionally insightful as Eric Puchner.”
Puchner teaches at Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner and John L’Heureux Fellow.
His short stories have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Zoetrope: All Story, The Missouri Review, Glimmer Train Best New American Voices 2005 and other journals and anthologies.
He has won a Pushcart Prize and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award for “Music Through the Floor.”
He lives in San Francisco with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel.
Visit him online at www.ericpuchner.com.
