Eric Paul Shaffer is author of five books of poetry, including Lāhaina Noon; Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen; and Portable Planet. His poetry appears in Ploughshares, Slate, North American Review, Threepenny Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Australia's Island and Quadrant,
Canada's Event and Grain, New Zealand's Poetry NZ and Takahe, England's Stand and Magma, and Salt Publishing's 100 Poets Against the War. Shaffer received the 2002 Elliot Cades Award for Literature, a 2006 Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Award for Lāhaina Noon, and the 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry. In March, he received first place in poetry and third place in fiction in the 2010 Lorin Tarr Gill Writing Competition hosted by the Honolulu chapter of the National League of American PEN Women. Burn & Learn, his first novel, was published in November 2009. After living on Okinawa for eight years and on Maui for ten, he now lives on O'ahu and teaches at Honolulu Community College.---------
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