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Eric Linder Author

Eric Linder received his BA from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. After working briefly in New York City in advertising, he moved to Chelmsford, Mass., where he owned The Chelmsford Bookstore for five years. He has owned and operated Yellow Umbrella Books in Chatham, Mass., on Cape Cod since 1980. He has performed his work in Boston; Lowell; and Andover, Mass; Chelan, Wash.; and on Cape Cod at various venues including Night of New Works at the Academy Playhouse in Orleans and the Cape Cod Cultural Center in Dennisport. He lives in Eastham where he recently discovered a meteorite in his back yard while digging turnips. His work has appeared in The Quarterly, Harvard Magazine, Light Year: The Annual of Light Verse and Funny Poems, Bellingham Review, and other journals and anthologies.