Eric Wilson’s work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Epoch, Carolina Quarterly, Witness, Boundary 2, German Quarterly, and O. Henry Prize Stories. After a Fulbright year at the Free University of Berlin, he went on to receive a PhD in German Literature at Stanford. Wilson taught German at UCLA and Pomona College; Harper & Row published his college-level German textbook Es geht weiter in 1977. Subsequently he was a freelance writer and translator, and taught fiction writing at UCLA Extension for thirty years.