ERIC BOYD
Eric Boyd is a fiction writer living in Pittsburgh.
A recipient of a PEN American Center Prison Writing Award and Slice Magazine's Bridging the Gap Award, Boyd's work is in Guernica, Joyland, Hobart, and The Offing, as well as the anthologies Prison Noir and Words Without Walls. He is the editor of The Pittsburgh Anthology.
Boyd holds an MFA from The Writer's Foundry in Brooklyn. He is working on a novel.
Gulf Stream, What is Paid For †
Hobart, All There Is
The Chalkboard (F. Ford Coppola’s ‘Vendetta’), A Debt
Bartleby Snopes, It Can, It Can, It Can #
PEN America Journal, How To DonatE***
Prison Noir, Trap*
Lime Hawk Journal, Hoping for .500
7x7, Nobody, Pretending
Bridge Eight, Wayward*
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Effort
Missouri Review blog, TWO ESSAYS
Masters Review, two 13-word stories
Burrow Press Review, Pictures
Cheap Pop, Persuasion
Guernica, The Chains That Keep ‖
PEN America Journal, ExaminationΔ
AskashicBooks.com, TWO STORIES
* Print Only
† Nominated for pushcart prize
‡ Winner of Slice Magazine's Bridging the gap award
# voted as story of the month (Nov 2015); anthologized
‖ collab w. PEN america; later reprinted (w. illustrations) by sixpenny & Co.
Δ winner of PEN Prison Writing Award
S E L E C T W R I T I N G
E D I T I N G, T E A C H I N G +
Editor: The Pittsburgh Anthology
Guest Editor: The James Franco Review
Reader: Winter Tangerine’s ‘Hands Up Don't Shoot’ issue
Guest Editor: Dead Flowers, a poetry rag
Advising Editor: tNY Press
Judge: Waldman InTl Writing Competition (2016)
Panelist: Conversations & Connections (2014, 2015)
Panelist: N. America Review Conference (2015)
Teacher: Words Without Walls workshop
"Diverse, surprising, eloquent, playful, scrappy, and tenacious."
— Ploughshares
"This collection is stimulating...a portrait Boyd has designed to be from-the-streets, warts-and-all."
— Bill O'driscoll
PRAISE FOR
THE PITTSBURGH ANTHOLOGY
PEN Prison Writing Award (2012, fiction)
Bridging the Gap Award (2015)
PF/PCA Flight School Fellowship (2017)
Market Street Arts Festival (2013, fiction)
H.E. Francis Award (2015, Semi-finalist)
NAR Twitter Contest (Honorable Mention)
B. Snopes’ Story of the Month (Nov. 2015)
Tin House Summer Workshop (2014)
Pushcart Prize (nominated 2013/16/17)
AWARDS, ETC.
INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES
The Other Stories
Bridge Eight
Midwestern Gothic
Huffington Post
City Paper
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tribune Review
Pittsburgh Quarterly
UPCOMING EVENTS
a free, monthly writing workshop (sponsored by Chatham University's "Words Without Walls" program), held every 2nd Saturday at Steel Valley Roasters
