Eric Puchner is the author of four books, including a new novel, Dream State, forthcoming from Doubleday in March 2025.  His previous books include the novel Model Home, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and two collections of stories, Last Day on Earth and Music Through the Floor, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award.  His fiction and personal essays have appeared in GQ, Granta, McSweeney’s, Tin House, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and The Best American Short Stories 2012 and 2017.  He has received a California Book Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Among other places, he has taught at Stanford University, Claremont McKenna College, and San Francisco State University.