Eric Paul Shaffer is author of five books of poetry, including Lāhaina Noon (2005); Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen (2001); Portable Planet (2000); RattleSnake Rider (1990); and Kindling: Poems from Two Poets (1988; with James Taylor III). His poetry appears in more than three hundred local, national, and international reviews and in the anthologies 100 Poets Against the War, The Soul Unearthed, Fishtrap Anthology 2006, and Witnessing Earth. Shaffer received the 2002 Elliot Cades Award for Literature and a 2006 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Book Award for Lāhaina Noon. He won a 2006 Fellowship to the Summer Fishtrap Writers Workshop in Oregon and the 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry. Burn & Learn, his first novel, was published in Fall 2009. He teaches at Honolulu Community College.

Lahaina Noon (Leaping Dog Press, 2005), Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen (Leaping Dog Press, 2001), Portable Planet (Leaping Dog Press, 2000)

Restoring Lady Liberty (Obscure Publications, 2009), Road Sign Suite: Across America and Again (Obscure Publications, 2007)

100 Poets Against the War (Salt Publishing, 2003)

American Scholar, Another Chicago Magazine, Malahat Review, New Millennium Writings, North American Review, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review