Eric Paul Shaffer is author of seven volumes of poetry. Even Further West, the most recent book of poetry, was published in 2018 by Unsolicited Press, and A Million-Dollar Bill appeared in 2016. Other volumes include Lāhaina Noon: Nā Mele O Maui; Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen; Portable Planet; RattleSnake Rider; and Kindling: Poems from Two Poets (with James Taylor III). Three chapbooks of his poetry have been published: Restoring Lady Liberty; Road Sign Suite: Across America and Again; and Instant Mythology. His poems appear in Slate, North American Review, The Sun Magazine, RATTLE, Ploughshares, and Threepenny Review; Ireland's Poetry Ireland Review and Southword Journal; Australia’s Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Island, Quadrant Magazine, and Westerly; Canada’s Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire, and PRISM International; New Zealand’s Takahé and Poetry NZ; England’s Iota, The Stand Magazine, and Magma; and in the anthologies 100 Poets Against the War (Salt 2003); The EcoPoetry Anthology (Trinity UP 2013); and Jack London Is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai‘i (And Some Stories) (Tinfish 2013). His first novel Burn & Learn, or Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era was published by Leaping Dog Press in 2009, and two chapbooks of fiction selected from the novel have also been published: The Felony Stick and You Are Here. In 2002, Shaffer won the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, an endowed literary prize awarded annually to an established local writer in Hawai‘i. In 2006, he received a fellowship to the Fishtrap Summer Writers Workshop and Retreat; won the Rupert Hughes Writing Award for his novel-in-progress Six Ways Home; and received the "Award of Excellence" in the Ka Palapala Po‘okela Book Awards for Lāhaina Noon from the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association. In 2019, Even Further West also received "Honorable Mention" in the Ka Palapala Po‘okela Book Awards. Shaffer’s poem "Officer, I Saw the Whole Thing," from Lāhaina Noon, received a "Special Mention" in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology XXXI. In 2009, for his poem "The Whistle," he won the 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry from Hawai‘i Pacific University; the poem is included in A Million-Dollar Bill. In 2010, his poem "A Boat of Bones" received first place in the Lorin Tar Gill Writing Competition sponsored by the National League of American PEN Women; this poem will be included in Even Further West. Long ago, he was a co-editor of Conceptions Southwest and a book reviewer and poetry co-editor for Stick: Contemporary Poetry and Timeless Cuisine. More recently, he has reviewed for Fish Drum, Mad Blood, Maui Time Weekly, Chiron Review, and The Pedestal Magazine. He was also a contributing editor for The 365 Project. He was raised, educated, and annealed in Maryland, Michigan, Indiana, New Mexico, California, and all parts Pacific, including Okinawa, Japan, Indonesia (Java and Bali), and Hawai‘i (Maui and O‘ahu). He lives on O‘ahu with his wonderful wife, a goofy feline, and a silly canine that make mornings fun. He teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Honolulu Community College.