Eric G. Mueller

Eric G. Müller was born in Durban, South Africa, and studied literature and history at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. After a few years working at a variety of jobs, playing and performing music, and traveling around Europe, he attended Emerson College in Sussex, England and the Waldorf Institute in Witten-Annen, Germany, where he specialized in music education. Together with his family he moved to Eugene, Oregon, where he taught for eight years. Currently he is living in upstate New York, teaching music, drama, English literature and creative writing. He is a founding member of the Alkion Center and is the director of the education department. He has taught at Simon's Rock College of Bard as an adjunct teacher and summer courses at Sunbridge College. He has written two novels, Rites of Rock (Adonis Press, 2005) and Meet Me at the Met (Plain View Press, 2010), as well as a collection of poetry, Coffee on the Piano for You (Adonis Press, 2008). His most recent publications include The Invisible Boat (Waldorf Publications, 2013), a book for children, and Drops on the Water: Stories of Growing up from a Father and a Son (AH, Loyola University, Baltimore, 2014). Poetry, articles and short stories have appeared in many journals, anthologies and magazines.