Eric Wasserman was born and raised
in Portland, Oregon, where he attended Lewis & Clark College.
He holds an MFA from Emerson College in Boston and is the author
of a collection of short stories, The Temporary Life (La
Questa Press, 2005). His short story, “He’s No Sandy
Koufax,” won First Prize in the 13th Annual David Dornstein
Creative Writing Contest, and his work has appeared in many publications,
including Glimmer Train and Poets & Writers Magazine Online.
His story “Brothers” recently won the 2007 Červená Barva
Press Fiction Chapbook Prize and will be published in June.
Eric recently completed his first novel, Celluloid Strangers,
which is set in late 1940s Los Angeles and tackles the anti-Semitic
nature of the early McCarthy witch hunts in Old Hollywood. He
is currently working on a new novel based on the biblical story
of Abraham being instructed by God to sacrifice his son, Isaac.
Eric lives in Ohio with his wife, fantasy writer Thea Ledendecker,
their three cats and a dog, and is an Assistant Professor
of English at The
University of Akron, where he also teaches
in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative
Writing (NEOMFA).
"I believe that when you’re young you
should go to all the places you’re uncomfortable in and prove
yourself, because someday you’re going to have to prove yourself. " --John
Cassavetes, director/writer of "Opening Night".
