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Eric Paul Shaffer is an American novelist and poet, who lives and works in Hawai‘i. Currently a professor of English at Honolulu Community College,[1] he formerly taught at Maui Community College and the University of the Ryukyus on Okinawa.[2] His work has appeared in more than 550 national and international reviews, journals, and magazines, including Bamboo Ridge, the Chaminade Literary Review, the Chicago Review,[3] the Chiron Review, Slate, The Sun Magazine, and the North American Review,[4] as well as in the anthologies 100 Poets Against the War, The EcoPoetry Anthology, Jack London Is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai‘i (And Some Stories), Crossing Lines, In the Trenches, Weatherings, and The Soul Unearthed.[5] He is the author of seven collections of poetry and one novel.

Shaffer is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, where he received a Ph.D. in American Literature in 1991.[6] He received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, Hawaii's highest literary honor, in 2002,[7] and the James Vaughan Award for Poetry in 2010.[8] He was a visiting poetry faculty member at the 23rd annual Jackson Hole Writers Conference. His poetry collection Lāhaina Noon received an Award for Excellence in the 2006 Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Awards.[9] His poetry collection Even Further West received an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Awards.

Bibliography

• Kindling: Poems from Two Poets (1988) (with James Taylor III)
• RattleSnake Rider (1990)
• Portable Planet: Poems (2000)
• How I Read Gertrude Stein by Lew Welch (editor and introduction) (1995)
• Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen (2001)
• Lāhaina Noon: Nā Mele O Maui (2005)
• Burn & Learn: Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era (2009)
• A Million-Dollar Bill (2016)
• Even Further West (2018)

References

External links

• Works by Eric Paul Shaffer at WorldCat

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