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Eric Chandler is the author of Kekekabic (Finishing Line Press, 2022) (Honorable Mention for Poetry in the 2023 Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards) and Hugging This Rock (Middle West Press, 2017). His writing has appeared in Northern Wilds, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Talking Stick, Sleet Magazine, O-Dark-Thirty, Line of Advance, Collateral, The Deadly Writers Patrol, PANK, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Consequence Magazine, and Columbia Journal. Chandler was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014 for creative nonfiction. He’s a three-time winner of the Col. Darron L. Wright Award for poetry. Chandler is also a US Air Force veteran of both the active duty and the Minnesota Air National Guard. He flew 145 combat missions and over 3000 hours in the F ...more

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Leo. Somewhere along the Superior Hiking Trail. 2014.

It’s empty where you were.

Just a big gaping hole.

-from “Bloodshot Eyes” by Trampled by Turtles

The vet depressed the plunger on one syringe, the sedative. She gave him the second syringe and then listened to his heart with a stethoscope. Leo was lying down in what we called his “food pose.” He was lying on his stomach, straight ahea

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	Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War by Randy Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steve Leonard (Editor), Eric Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.48 avg rating — 40 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hugging This Rock: Poems of Earth & Sky, Love & War by Eric Chandler (Goodreads Author), Jeff Mlady (Cover Design) 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going Coastal by Phil Fitzpatrick (Contributor), Evan Sasman (Contributor), Marie Zhuikov (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Best War Stories: Prize-winning Poetry & Prose from the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards by Christopher Lyke, Randy Brown (Goodreads Author), David Dixon (Goodreads Author) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grey Sparrow (Fall 2015, Issue 26) by Diane Smith (Editor), Anna Visser (Guest Copy Editor), Suman Pokhrel (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kekekabic 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outside Duluth by Eric Chandler (Goodreads Author), Brian Barber (Illustrator) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down In It it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Our Common Ground: A History of America's Public Lands

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“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”
― Jim Harrison

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“My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?”
― Ernest K. Gann, Fate Is the Hunter

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“Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.

I do. But I like to hear you say it.

Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”
― Joss Whedon

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“If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.”
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