Eric Boyd was born in North Carolina, attended some school at the Maharishi University of Management in Iowa, and currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pa.
A winner of the Pen American Center's 2012 Prison Writing Contest, Boyd has had work awarded and featured in several journals including Fourth River, Nanoism, Hillbilly Magazine, and the Rusty Nail.
Boyd's first collection of short stories, Whiskey Sour, was released last spring by Chatham University / Nervous Puppy Publishing. The collection will soon enter its second printing.