Curt Eriksen was born in Kansas, but spent half of his life in Europe. His novel set in the Serengeti—A Place of Timeless Harmony— was selected by the editors of Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Indie Debut Novels of 2018. It also won the 2016 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and was a finalist in the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Curt’s short fiction, novel extracts, poetry and political and literary commentary have appeared in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, India and Spain, in numerous print and online journals, including Blackbird, Rosebud and Writer’s Digest. He is actively searching for an agent to represent other completed works of fiction. Curt is an accomplished martial artist and certified instructor of both Taiji Quan and the Russian martial art of Samozashchita Bez Oruzhiya, as well as a salsa dance and music enthusiast and practitioner. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of Maryland and an MFA from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Curt lives between the Sierra de Gredos, in western Spain, and Boston.