Bio

Eric Schlich is the author of the novel Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife (Overlook, 2024) and the story collection Quantum Convention (UNT Press, 2018), winner of the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Prize and the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award.

His stories have been selected for prizes by writers T.C. Boyle, Roxane Gay, Helen Oyeyemi, and Justin Torres. His fiction has aired on Public Radio International’s Selected Shorts and appeared in American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, and Electric Literature, among other journals.

He is the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, an Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellowship, and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Hambidge Center.

He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Memphis and on the editorial board of The Pinch. He lives in Memphis, TN with his wife, poet Jade Ramsey Schlich and son Ender; their golden retrievers, Molly and Tonks; and their Russian blue cat, Grindelwald (Grindy).