Eckhard Gerdes
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Eckhard Gerdes (born 1959) is an American novelist and editor. He earned his MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He is the author of five published novels:
- Projections [1986, Depth Charge Press]
- Ring in a River [1989, Depth Charge Press]
- Truly Fine Citizen [1992, Highlander Press]
- Cistern Tawdry [2002, Fugue State Press]
- Przewalski's Horse [2006, Red Hen Press]
His work, often darkly humorous, frequently crosses boundaries of fictional technique, ignoring time, space, cause and effect at will, in the service of stories of individuals struggling to transcend fear and limitation.
Noteworthy reviews of his work have appeared in Rain Taxi, Notre Dame Review, and Review of Contemporary Fiction among many others.
Eckhard Gerdes is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, a series of books often consisting of ambitious Festschrifts on a single writer (e.g. John Barth, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe). He has also written on modern and post-modern literature for Review of Contemporary Fiction, Hyde Park Review of Books, and other magazines.
Gerdes has twice been the recipient of the Richard Pike Bissell Creative Writing Award, is listen in Contemporary Authors, 2000 Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century, International Authors and Writer's Who's Who, and Who's Who in Writers, Editors, and Poets, and is a member of the board of advisors for CONTEXT: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture.
He lives in Chicago; he has three children.
