| Eckhard Gerdes | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
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| Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA) Roosevelt University (MA) University of Dubuque (BA) |
| Children | 3 |
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| eckhardgerdes | |
Eckhard Gerdes (born 1959) is an American novelist and editor.
Life
Eckhard Gerdes was born in 1959 in Atlanta, Georgia, and has lived in Switzerland, Germany, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Katanga, the Republic of South Africa, as well as in several locations throughout the United States in Illinois, Georgia, Iowa, Alaska, and California. He has three children and five grandchildren.
He earned his MFA in Fiction Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also holds an MA in English from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a BA in English from the University of Dubuque in Iowa.
Work
Perhaps best known for his novels, his work reflects experimental technique, sometimes ignoring time, space, or cause-and-effect, in the service of stories of individuals struggling to transcend fear and limitation.
His critical work on modern and post-modern literature has appeared in the Review of Contemporary Fiction, the American Book Review, and, recently, has included a chapter on the writing of his friend Raymond Federman in Jeffrey R. DiLeo's collection Federman's Fictions (SUNY Press, 2011).
Gerdes is also the editor of the Journal of Experimental Fiction and publisher of its associated press, JEF Books.
Books
He is the author of
- Projections
- Truly Fine Citizen
- Ring in a River
- Cistern Tawdry
- Przewalski's Horse
- The Million-Year Centipede, or, Liquid Structures
- Nin and Nan (appeared in Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue)
- My Landlady the Lobotomist
- The Unwelcome Guest b/w Nin and Nan
- Hugh Moore
- Three Psychedelic Novellas
- The Sylvia Plath Cookbook: A Satire
- ’S A Bird
- 23 Skidoo! 23 Form-Fitting Poems
- How to Read
- Blues for Youse
- White Bungalows
- Recto & Verso: A Work of Asemism and Pareidolia
- Three Plays
- Marco & Iarlaith: A Novel in Flash Fictions
- The Pissers' Theatre
- The Chronicles of Michel du Jabot
- The Isolate (writing as Apollo Camembert)
- Isolato (writing as Apollo Camembert, translated into Italian by Giuliano Ladolfi
Awards and nominations
- Recipient, &NOW Award for Innovative Writing
- Nominee, Georgia Author of the Year
- Finalist, Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction
- Finalist, The Blatt Novel of Novels Award
- Finalist, Wonderland Book Award
- Recipient, Richard Pike Bissell Award for Creative Writing
References
Essays on his work, and reviews of individual publications, have appeared in
- 3:AM Magazine
- Texas Review
- American Book Review
- Rain Taxi
- Notre Dame Review
- Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Blue Print Review, and elsewhere.
External links
- Bio from Raw Dog Screaming Press
- Bizarro Central
- Author's website
- The Journal of Experimental Fiction website
- Word Riot interview
- Penman Review interview
- E & E's Compounding Pharmacy interview
- 1959 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American literary critics
- Living people
- American postmodern writers
- Postmodernists
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
- Novelists from Chicago
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American male non-fiction writers