Eric Heyne

Eric Heyne is Professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he has taught since 1986. He is the editor of Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Literature on the American Frontier and the University of Alaska Press edition of Jack London's Burning Daylight, and author of Fish the Dead Water Hard, a collection of poetry from Cirque Press. He has published scholarship in Narrative, Modern Fiction Studies, Extrapolation, and elsewhere, and poetry in Platte Valley Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Shark Reef, and elsewhere. He teaches primarily courses in American literature and critical theory, as well as first-year writing.

Eric grew up spending summers at Holden Village in the central Cascade Mountains, which is probably why he ended up in Alaska. He attended Stanford University, the University of Washington, and the Ohio State University (where he received his M.A. and Ph.D). He is married to Alexandra Fitts, Vice-Provost and Dean of General Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His son Galen Heyne is a veterinarian in Madison, Wisconsin, and his daughter Annabel Heyne is a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles. His father, Paul Heyne, was a popular Economics textbook author and teacher at the University of Washington, and his stepmother, Julie Heyne, is a visual artist currently with i.e. Gallery in Edison, WA.