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Erik Wennermark


Location Colombo, Sri Lanka
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, Chicago, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, writing all the while. One of his proudest accomplishments is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; other memorable trips include Peru, Syria, Cambodia, and the Balkans. Erik lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Any favorite authors? Books?

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