Eric Puchner is the author of the novel Model Home, winner of a California Book Award Silver Medal in fiction, and two story collections, Music through the Floor and Last Day on Earth. His fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, 2012 and Best American Nonrequired Reading, 2012. A recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature Puchner is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University and he lives in Baltimore with his wife, the novelist Katharine Noel, and their two children.