Eric Puchner is the author of the novel Model Home, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and two collections of stories, Music Through the Floor and Last Day on Earth. His work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including GQ, Granta, Tin House, Zoetrope, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Puschart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and The Best American Short Stories 2012 and 2017. He has received an NEA fellowship, a California Book Award, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
While at MacDowell, he completed two chapters of his novel-in-progress and rewrote a third.
