Curt Eriksen

CURT ERIKSEN was born in Kansas, but has spent half of his life in Europe. He lives between the Sierra de Gredos, in western Spain, and Boston. His short fiction, novel extracts, political commentary, and poetry have appeared in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, and Spain, in numerous print and online journals, including Blackbird, Rosebud , and Alba . He is an accomplished martial artist, and a certified instructor of both Taiji Quan and the Russian martial art of Samozashchita Bez...See more

CURT ERIKSEN was born in Kansas, but has spent half of his life in Europe. He lives between the Sierra de Gredos, in western Spain, and Boston. His short fiction, novel extracts, political commentary, and poetry have appeared in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, and Spain, in numerous print and online journals, including Blackbird, Rosebud , and Alba . He is an accomplished martial artist, and a certified instructor of both Taiji Quan and the Russian martial art of Samozashchita Bez Oruzhiya known as SAMBO. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of Maryland and an MFA from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. See less