A Scribbler of Waking Dreams

Erik Bundy lives in the magical North Carolina woods where female chipmunks are called chipnuns, coyotes come by to tell him fairy tales about cunning coyote heroes, and mice claiming to be cousins move in for the winter then take the towels when they leave in spring. Unlike many writers, he doesn’t keep a cat in deference to his mouse cousins and because he couldn’t live up to its expectations.

He became a writer because it was a solitary pursuit, and since he had no friends, he figured why not turn a liability into an asset. Another option was becoming a shepherd, but mutton is his least favorite meat, and he couldn’t play a reed flute. Also, he’s the kind of guy who would worry too much about the flock. After all, sheep are out in all kinds of weather and everyone knows wool shrinks when it gets wet.

He is an award-winning author, a graduate of the six-week Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop (where he lowered the class IQ by five or six points), and a grand prize winner of the Sidney Lanier Poetry Competition. More than thirty of his stories and poems have been published, and Untold Press published his novel, Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves in 2014.

He recently republished Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves and published a sequel, The Dwarf Assassin.

His story, “Turnabout,” is in the Writers of the Future anthology, volume 34, published in April 2018.

His most recent novel is a Medieval mystery, The Plowman’s Plight, published in 2021 and written under the pen name E. A. Rivière.