Eric Boyd

Eric Boyd is a recipient of the PEN Prison Writing Award, Slice Magazine’s Bridging the Gap Award, and was a semi-finalist for the H.E. Francis Award. His stories have appeared in Joyland, Guernica, The Offing, Hobart, The Masters Review, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, as well as the anthologies Prison Noir(Akashic Books) and Words Without Walls (Trinity University Press). Living in Pittsburgh, Boyd holds an MFA from the Writer’s Foundry in Brooklyn. He is the editor of The Pittsburgh Anthology (Belt Publishing), which Ploughsharescalled “diverse, surprising, eloquent, playful, scrappy, and tenacious.”

Boyd is now completing his debut story collection, Brownfields and has begun work on a novel about young freight train hoppers.