His short stories have appeared in Tin House, Chicago Tribune, The Sun, The Missouri Review,^[1] and Best New American Voices. He was a fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His story, "Beautiful Monsters", was selected by Tom Perrotta for the 2012 edition of The Best American Short Stories.

He attended Chadwick School high school. He taught at San Francisco State University, Stanford University, and Claremont McKenna College.^[2] He currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. ^{[3] [4] [5]} He lives in Baltimore with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel, and their sons, Simon and Clem.^[6][7]

• Pushcart Prize XXVIII
• Wallace Stegner Fellowship ^[8]
• 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.
• PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

• "Animals Here Below". Zoetrope: All Story. 9 (3). Fall 2005.
• "Children of God". Zoetrope: All Story. 6 (4). Winter 2002.

Novel edit

• Model Home: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7432-7048-9

Short stories edit

• Music Through the Floor. Simon and Schuster. 2005. ISBN 978-0-7432-7046-5.
• Last Day on Earth. 2017

Non-fiction edit

• "I MARRIED A NOVELIST". Canteen. 4. 2009. Archived from the original on May 20, 2009.

Anthologies edit

• Best new American voices 2005, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, Francine Prose (eds), Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-15-602899-8

• Author's website
• "Eric Puchner", KQED
• Interview with Eric Puchner at Simon & Schuster
• Interview with Eric Puchner, The Southeast Review Archived 2009-11-26 at the Wayback Machine