Eric Puchner

Eric Puchner is an American novelist and short story writer, author of *Music Through the Floor* (2005), a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, the novel *Model Home* (2010), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and *Last Day on Earth*. He has received a Pushcart Prize, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he lives with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel, and their two children.[1][2][3][6]