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 has been published by Guernica, Joyland, Hobart, and The Offing. His stories also appeared in the anthologies Prison Noir and Words Without Walls. He is the editor of The Pittsburgh Anthology.

Boyd holds an MFA from The Writers Foundry in Brooklyn. He wrote a story collection called Brownfields and is currently working on a novel called Rah-Rah.

Gulf Stream,   What is Paid For* †
Hobart,   All There Is

Joyland,   Five Minutes* ‡

The Chalkboard ^{_{(F. Ford Coppola’s ‘Vendetta’)}},   A Debt

Bartleby Snopes,   It Can, It Can, It Can* #

PEN America Journal,   How To Donate ^{_{[print only]}}
Prison Noir,   Trap ^{_{[print only]}}

Lime Hawk Journal,   Hoping for .500*

7x7,   Nobody, Pretending*
Bridge Eight,   Wayward _{^{[print only]}}*
Vol. 1 Brooklyn,   Effort

Missouri Review blog,   TWO ESSAYS
Masters Review,  two 13-word stories
Burrow Press Review,   Pictures
Cheap Pop,   Persuasion

The Offing,   Ash Wednesday*

Guernica,   The Chains That Keep* ‖

PEN America Journal,   Examination^Δ
AskashicBooks.com,   TWO STORIES

* _{^{to appear in the story collection Brownfields}}

† ^{_{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

"In Pittsburgh, there is always something or someone new to learn about, and each chapter of this book introduces the reader to one of them."

— Heinz History Center

"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

The Setonian

Public Source

City Paper
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tribune Review
Pittsburgh Quarterly

UPCOMING EVENTS

Homestead Writers Group

a free, monthly writing workshop (sponsored by Chatham University's "Words Without Walls" program), held every 2nd Saturday at Steel Valley Roasters

AWP 2019 (3-30-19)

Creative freedom: Writing in US Prisons- a Panel featuring Michael Fischer, Ann Folwell,  Randall Horton, and Mike Puican. 

CONTACT @ERIC-BOYD.COM

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