This is an odd little book that offers approaches to reading outside the obvious cover-to-cover, such as excerpted, extra-textual (reading about the text), cross-referential (seeking patterns), etc. He has three children and five grandchildren. For Cistern Tawdry Gerdes was nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Fiction Category. He has also been a finalist for both the Starcherone & the Blatt fiction prizes for his unpublished manuscript White Bungalows.

The Million-Year Centipede was selected as one of the top ten mainstream novels of 2007 in the annual Preditors & Editors Readers Poll. Gerdes has been awarded an &NOW Award for Innovative Fiction and has twice been the recipient of the Richard Pike Bissell Creative Writing Award for excerpts from Przewalski's Horse. He has also written on modern & post-modern literature for Review of Contemporary Fiction, Hyde Park Review of Books & other magazines. John Barth, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe). Reviews of his work have appeared in Rain Taxi, Notre Dame Review, Dream People, Review of Contemporary Fiction & elsewhere.Įckhard Gerdes is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, issues of which are usually Festschrifts on a single writer (e.g. His recent work has been associated with the Bizarro Fiction movement, of which he is one of the leading proponents. His work reflects experimental technique, sometimes ignoring time, space, or causality in the service of stories of individuals struggling to transcend fear & limitation. The Pissers'Theatre a novelĢ3 Skidoo! 23 Form-Fitting Poems Marco & Iarlaith a novel in flash fiction The Sylvia Plath Cookbook: A Satire a long short story Three Psychedelic Novellas three novellas

The Unwelcome Guest and Nin and Nan two novellas The Million-Year Centipede, or, Liquid Structures a novel He's author of fifteen published books of fiction: He earned his MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eckhard Gerdes is an American-born novelist & editor.

How to Read by Eckhard Gerdes