EddieJoe Cherbony
EddieJoe Cherbony reads on February 8, 2012, in the Hammes Bookstore at 7:30 p.m.
EddieJoe Ivan Cherbony began his literary career sweeping floors at a steel mill in Southeast Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in Pasadena Magazine, The Northridge Review, and A Time to Write (literary journal of the Violence Prevention Initiative). He has presented at a number of professional conferences throughout the United States and in England. His honors include a HASTAC fellowship, a Juniper Summer Writing Institute scholarship, an Associated Students scholarship, and a Graduate Equity Fellowship.
Currently, he is teaching fiction at the University of Notre Dame and searching for an agent. He says that his first novel, Waiting for the Frogs to Sing, will “knock the socks off the literary world.” It’s about a boy and his family who live near a forest filled with tiny frogs that can heal the wounded with their song.
EddieJoe earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Notre Dame and is the recipient of the 2011 Sparks Prize.
