Eric Puchner is the author of the novel, Model Home (Scribner, 2010) and the short story collection, Music Through the Floor (Scribner, 2005), which was a finalist for the NY Public Library’s Young Lions Award.

His short stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, Chicago Tribune, The Sun, The Missouri Review, Best New American Voices, and many other journals and anthologies.

A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he is an assistant professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel, and their daughter.