University of the Ryukyus
Eric Paul Shaffer is an American novelist and poet, who lives and works in Hawai'i. Currently an assistant professor of English at Honolulu Community College, he formerly taught at Maui Community College and the University of the Ryukyus on Okinawa. His work has appeared in more than 400 national and international reviews, journals, and magazines, including "Bamboo Ridge", the "Chaminade Literary Review", the "Chicago Review", the "Chiron Review", "Slate", "The Sun Magazine", and the "North American Review", as well as in the anthologies "100 Poets Against the War", "The EcoPoetry Anthology", "Jack London Is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai‘i (And Some Stories)", "Crossing Lines", "In the Trenches", "Weatherings", and "The Soul Unearthed". He is the author of five collections of poetry and one novel.