Eric Chandler

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Duluth, MN
Minnesota US
Email: 
fourchandlers@msn.com
Website: 
ericchandler.wordpress.com/
Twitter/X: 
@shmof16

Author's Bio

Eric Chandler is the author of Kekekabic (Finishing Line Press, 2022) and Hugging This Rock (Middle West Press, 2017). His writing has appeared in Northern Wilds, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Talking Stick, Sleet Magazine, O-Dark-Thirty, Line of Advance, Collateral, The Deadly Writers Patrol, PANK, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Consequence Magazine, and Columbia Journal. Chandler was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014 for creative nonfiction. He’s a three-time winner of the Col. Darron L. Wright Award for poetry. Chandler is also a US Air Force veteran of both the active duty and the Minnesota Air National Guard. He flew 145 combat missions and over 3000 hours in the F-16. He’s happiest when he’s on a trail in Duluth with his wife, two children, and faithful dog, Leo.

 

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:
Consequence
,
Line of Advance
,
Sleet Magazine
,
War Horse

Fiction

Anthology:
Going Coastal: (North Star Press, 2017)
Journals:
Aqueous Magazine
,
O-Dark-Thirty
,
Pank
,
Sleet Magazine

Poetry

Books:
Kekekabic (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
,
Hugging This Rock (Middle West Press, 2017)
Prizes won: 

- Honorable Mention for Poetry: 2023 Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards for Kekekabic (Finishing Line Press, 2022)

- Winner: Poetry category, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors (Volume 11) for "Tar"

- Winner: 2020 Lake Superior Writers Annual Contest (Creative Nonfiction) for “I Have No Idea”

- Winner: 2019 COL Darron L. Wright Award for Poetry for the poem "How Could You Do That?" through the literary journal Line of Advance.

- Honorable Mention for Fiction at Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards: Going Coastal (North Star Press, 2017) by Lake Superior Writers. Includes "The Heart Under the Lake" by Eric Chandler

- Winner: Nonfiction for the Veterans Day edition of the Columbia Journal for the story "The Big Red One" in November 2017.

- Winner: 2017 COL Darron L. Wright Award for Poetry for the poem “Air Born” through the literary journal Line of Advance.

- Winner: 2016 COL Darron L. Wright Award for Poetry for the poem “The Stars and Stripes is Free” through the literary journal Line of Advance.

- Winner: 2015 Lake Superior Writers Annual Contest (Short Story) for “Trail Through the Tamaracks.”

- Pushcart Prize Nomination (Creative Nonfiction): Sleet Magazine editor, Susan Solomon, for “Chemical Warfare,” Spring 2014.

 

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
James Salter, Jim Harrison, Wallace Stegner, Billy Collins, Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Camus, Joseph Heller, Brian Turner, Billy Collins, Ernest K. Gann, Karl Marlantes, Thomas McGuane, Sebastian Junger
What I'm reading now: 
The Lands Nobody Wanted by , The Pleasures of the Damned by Bukowski

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Veterans
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Oct 14, 2023