erik wennermark


Location Ho Chi Minh City
Website http://erikwennermark.com

About Me

Erik Wennermark is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and journalism. He has a BA in Individualized Study (with a focus in Drawing/Painting and 20th Century European Literature) from New York University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Alabama.

Erik has worked as a librarian in Baltimore, a gallerist in New York City and Venice, Italy, a painter in Denver, and a teacher in Alabama and Chicago, writing all the while. One of his proudest accomplishment is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro; other memorable trips include Peru, Syria and the Balkans. Erik lives in Vietnam, where he is teaching and writing.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Camus, Melville, Burroughs, Bolano, Mann. Moby Dick, The Stranger, Blood Meridian, Cloud Atlas, The Sound and the Fury.