E r i c    S c h w e r e r

 

! New Release November 2006 !

 

 

The Saint of Withdrawal

 

other books:

Schwerer’s first book, Whittling Lessons (a limited edition chapbook, Finishing Line Press, 2005), was nominated for an Ohioana Book Award.

contact the author schwerer@pitt.edu

 

Raised in Export, PA, Eric Schwerer attended Allegheny College and The Iowa Writers' Workshop.  After working as a carpenter in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Ohio, he earned a PhD from Ohio University.  He has taught poetry to people recovering from mental illness and now teaches in the Creative Writing department at Johnstown's University of Pittsburgh.  His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Fence, The Laurel Review, Quarter After Eight, Elixir, Artful Dodge, Poems & Plays, Northwest Review, Diagram, Paper Street, and Third Coast.