Eric Wasserman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he attended Lewis & Clark College. He holds an MFA from Emerson College in Boston. His short story, He's No Sandy Koufax, won First Prize in the 13th Annual David Dornstein Creative Writing Contest, and his work has appeared in many publications, including Glimmer Train and Poets & Writers Magazine Online. Eric is an assistant professor of English at the University of Akron, where he also teaches in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing (NEOMFA).