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.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Eric Puchner
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Baltimore, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012, 2018
More:
www.ericpuchner.com
Studios
Wood
Eric Puchner worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…