Eric Lochridge is a poet and editor in Bellingham, Washington. He is the author of Born-Again Death Wish (From Finishing Line Press, 2015), Real Boy Blues (Finishing Line Press, 2013), and Father’s Curse (FootHills Publishing, 2007). His poems have appeared in journals such as Paddlefish, Free Lunch, Slipstream, Diagram, Origami Condom and Main Channel Voices and in anthologies such as Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow! Press, 2009), Liberty’s Vigil: The Occupy Anthology (FootHills Publishing, 2012) and The XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1997).

He grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He has received grants and awards from the South Dakota Arts Council, the Dahl Arts Center and the High Plains Writers of Rapid City, South Dakota.