Eric Puchner

Eric Puchner reads "Animals Here Below," a selection from his short story collection Music Through the Floor. (Running Time: 39:51)

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Eric Puchner teaches at Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His short stories have appeared in Chicago Tribune, Zoetrope: All Story, The Missouri Review, and Best New American Voices 2005. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. His first collection of stories, Music Through the Floor, was published by Scribner in 2005. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel, and their seven-month-old daughter.