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Eric Schlich

Eric Schlich
Eric Schlich is the author of the story collection Quantum Convention, which received the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Prize and the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award in Fiction. His work has appeared in numerous publications and has been selected for prizes by writers including Roxane Gay, Helen Oyeyemi, and Justin Torres. He holds a PhD in fiction from Florida State University and an MFA from Bowling Green State University. He lives in Tennessee, where he is an assistant professor at the University of Memphis.


Why I Write Gay: Eric Schlich Channels His Bisexuality Through Queer Protagonists

“I’m done thinking of that as cowardly. Because what it really was, was empowering.”
January 18, 2024  By Eric Schlich
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