Eric Paul Shaffer lives in Kailua on O'ahu.A Million-Dollar Bill, his sixth book of poetry, was published in 2016 by Grayson Books. Other books of poetry include Lāhaina Noon; Portable Planet; Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen; RattleSnake Rider; and kindling: Poems from Two Poets, and chapbooks include Restoring Lady Liberty; Road Sign Suite: Across American and Again; and Instant Mythology. More than 400 of his poems have been published in reviews, journals, and magazines in the USA, Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales.His fiction includes You Are Here and The Felony Stick, two chapbooks, both of which contain selections from his first novel Burn & Learn, or Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era, which was published in November 2009.He has been a featured writer at the Talking Gourds Poetry Festival, Cedarville University, Maui Literary Circles Reading Festival, University of Wisconsin: Wausau, Kentucky Country Day School, Leeward Community College, and Yongsan Airbase in Korea, and is a frequent guest to panels at the Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival. Most recently, he was a Visiting Poetry Faculty Member at the 2015 Jackson Hole Writers Conference. Since 2000, he has organized and performed at least one National Poetry Month Poetry Reading every year in libraries and bookstores on Maui and O‘ahu.Known as "Reckless," he is a charter member of the "Ancient Order of the Fire Gigglers," an aggregation of writers including James Taylor III, John Kain, Kathryn Capels, Michael Adams, Padma Thornlyre, and the members of the publishing collective known as Turkey Buzzard Press, named in admiration and celebration of the work of Lew Welch.In 2002, Shaffer won the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, an endowed literary prize awarded annually to an established local writer. In 2006, he received a fellowship to the Fishtrap Summer Writers Workshop and Retreat; won the Rupert Hughes Writing Award for his novel-in-progress Six Ways Home; and won an "Award of Excellence" in the Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Awards for Lāhaina Noon from the Hawai'i Book Publishers Association. "Officer, I Saw the Whole Thing," from Lāhaina Noon, received a "Special Mention" in the 2007 Pushcart Prize anthology. In 2009, for his poem "The Whistle," he won the 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry from Hawai'i Pacific University. In 2010, his poem "A Boat of Bones" received first place in the Lorin Tar Gill Writing Competition sponsored by the National League of American PEN Women.He is an avid fan of the blues, bad science fiction movies, horror novels, five-mile runs, Hawaiian language and culture, star-gazing, contemporary poetry, Hōkū and Nalu (the two wildest cats he's ever known), and, most of all, his wife Veronica.