ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Erik Harper Klass's stories and essays have been published (or are forthcoming) in a variety of journals, including New England Review, Ninth Letter, The Baltimore Review, South Carolina Review, Yemassee (Cola Literary Review), Summerset Review, Slippery Elm, and many others, and Erik has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes. His novella Polish Poets in Beds with Girls is now available from Buttonhook Press. Erik writes in Los Angeles, CA.

 

Here are a few short samples of my work: 

 

"The Hills of Ojców When I Was Small" was published in Maryland Literary Review in summer 2019. On the eve of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s 1927 visit to Warsaw, a Polish poet lies in bed with his lover and contemplates revolution (always a kind of loss).

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"Three Horses in a Field at Dusk," recently published in The Baltimore Review, is not really about three horses in a field at dusk, or at least I don't think it is.

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"Perfection" is a short (two-paragraph) work of experimental fiction. It was published in Cola Literary Review (previously Yemassee) in summer 2022.

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"This Is Not a Story" is not a story. Or is it???

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"History and Class Consciousness in the Time of Coronavirus" was published in The Summerset Review in spring 2020. It's a love letter to my library.

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