He lives in [[San Francisco]] with his wife, novelist [[Katharine Noel]], and their daughter.

• Pushcart Prize XXVIII
• Wallace Stegner Fellowship
• 2006 National Endowment for the Arts grant
• Music Through the Floor, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.

Novel

• Model Home: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, 2010, ISBN 9780743270489

Short Stories

Non-Fiction

Anthologies

• Best new American voices 2005, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, Francine Prose (eds), Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780156028998

Sorry, Chekhov and Hemingway. You'd think the golden age of the short story would be now, given our increasingly short attention span. Alas, stories have almost entirely vanished from mainstream magazines, and collections are hardly first on most book publishers' lists. How exhilarating then to come across a young writer as technically gifted and emotionally insightful as Eric Puchner who is (thus far) dedicated to the short form. The nine stories in his debut collection, Music Through the Floor, are told in a classical mode - not groundbreaking in terms of form or content (misfits forced to swim against life's current), but executed with such fluency, constructed with such surprising plot twists and blessed with so many bright, memorable lines that they rise above the contemporary din.