Curt Eriksen was
born in Kansas and grew up in the Midwest. Now he lives between Boston and the
Sierra de Gredos, in western Spain. He
is currently an MFA candidate at Lesley University.
Curt’s work has appeared in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, India and Spain, in the following print and online journals: Independent Ink Magazine, Notes Magazine, Boston Literary Magazine, Curbside Splendor, Otoliths, Blue Crow Magazine, Criminal Class Press, Mad Hatters’ Review, The Hamilton Stone Review, right hand pointing, Hinchas de la Poesia, The Citron Review, Orbis, Anemone Sidecar, The Journal, SNReview (twice), Four and Twenty, Blackbird, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Poetry Quarterly, Poetry Super Highway, Canopic Jar, Forge, Harvests of New Millennium, Rosebud, Blood Lotus, Johnny America, The Ranfurly Review, New Madrid, The Ampersand Review, Foliate Oak, Ghoti, Radiant Turnstile, Oak Bend Review, 34th Parallel, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Temenos, 42opus, Alba, The Oklahoma Review and Del Sol Review.
More work is forthcoming in LiteraryMary and Literature for Kids.
Curt is an occasional contributor to The Montréal Review, where his ‘Letter From Spain’ has appeared. Prior to that he posted his short non-fiction articles relating to literary and sociopolitical concerns at: http://cleriksen.blogspot.com/
Curt’s short story ‘Even at Infinity’ was nominated for New Stories from the Midwest 2009, and the poem ‘Everything Fits’ has been selected for inclusion in an anthology being prepared by the poet John Smelcer.
Curt has been studying the martial arts for almost thirty years. He teaches both Qigong and Taiji Quan in Villanueva de la Vera, in the province of Cáceres. When in Boston he studies Xing Yi Quan with the Daoist priest Zhou Xuan Yun. Curt is a certified Regional Instructor, or Entrenador Regional de Taiji Quan, with the Federación Española de Kung-fu, Wu-shu, Taiji y Qi Gong.
Curt’s work has appeared in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, India and Spain, in the following print and online journals: Independent Ink Magazine, Notes Magazine, Boston Literary Magazine, Curbside Splendor, Otoliths, Blue Crow Magazine, Criminal Class Press, Mad Hatters’ Review, The Hamilton Stone Review, right hand pointing, Hinchas de la Poesia, The Citron Review, Orbis, Anemone Sidecar, The Journal, SNReview (twice), Four and Twenty, Blackbird, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Poetry Quarterly, Poetry Super Highway, Canopic Jar, Forge, Harvests of New Millennium, Rosebud, Blood Lotus, Johnny America, The Ranfurly Review, New Madrid, The Ampersand Review, Foliate Oak, Ghoti, Radiant Turnstile, Oak Bend Review, 34th Parallel, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Temenos, 42opus, Alba, The Oklahoma Review and Del Sol Review.
More work is forthcoming in LiteraryMary and Literature for Kids.
Curt is an occasional contributor to The Montréal Review, where his ‘Letter From Spain’ has appeared. Prior to that he posted his short non-fiction articles relating to literary and sociopolitical concerns at: http://cleriksen.blogspot.com/
Curt’s short story ‘Even at Infinity’ was nominated for New Stories from the Midwest 2009, and the poem ‘Everything Fits’ has been selected for inclusion in an anthology being prepared by the poet John Smelcer.
Curt has been studying the martial arts for almost thirty years. He teaches both Qigong and Taiji Quan in Villanueva de la Vera, in the province of Cáceres. When in Boston he studies Xing Yi Quan with the Daoist priest Zhou Xuan Yun. Curt is a certified Regional Instructor, or Entrenador Regional de Taiji Quan, with the Federación Española de Kung-fu, Wu-shu, Taiji y Qi Gong.
