Eric Shonkwiler

Eric Shonkwiler is the author of the novel Above All Men and the story collection Moon Up, Past Full. He has had writing appear in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, Fiddleblack, [PANK] Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Ohio, received his MFA from University of California-Riverside as a Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow, and has lived and worked in every contiguous U.S. time zone. He is the winner of The 2015 Luminaire Award for Best Prose, was selected as a New River Gorge Winter Writer-in-Residence, and his debut novel, Above All Men, was chosen as a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association.