Eckhard Gerdes

Eckhard Gerdes is a widely published, award-winning novelist, poet and playwright whose work has been extensively anthologized and recognized. He lives in the Chicago area, where he teaches, edits the Journal of Experimental Fiction, and functions as publisher and editor of JEF Books, a press devoted to the best innovative fiction in the English language. JEF Books sponsors the annual Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel.