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, 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.
In February, 2025, Puchner's novel Dream State became Oprah Winfrey's 111th Book Club selection.
He currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel, and their two children.
Awards Pushcart Prize XXVIII Wallace Stegner Fellowship 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
Novels Model Home: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, 2010, Dream State, Penguin/Doubleday, 2025,
Short stories
Last Day on Earth. 2017
Non-fiction
Anthologies Best New American Voices 2005, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, Francine Prose (eds), Harcourt, 2004,
References
External links Author's website "Eric Puchner", KQED Interview with Eric Puchner at Simon & Schuster Interview with Eric Puchner, The Southeast Review