Eric Parker

Eric Parker spent his formative years as a sponsored skateboarder riding the streets of Fresno and San Francisco, where he first became interested in the country’s homeless population. He recently completed a creative nonfiction book about his friendship with a homeless poet (publication pending),

He earned his MFA from California State University, Fresno, where he served as an assistant editor for The Normal School: A Literary Magazine and studied nonfiction with Lillian Faderman, John Hales, Steven Church, and Lee Gutkind (UNO Spain 2006).

He has taught creative writing and literature at The University of Alabama since 2010, was the longtime co-director of the Pure Products Reading Series, and recently received the English Department’s Excellence in Teaching Instructor Faculty Award. His work can be read in Bull, Hobart, The Best of Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac, Anomalous Press, Anderbo, and more.