Eric Shoemaker is the Founding Artistic Director of Poetry Is Productions, a theatre and arts company responsible for over four years of work in Chicago, New York, and Boulder. Several of his own plays and work by other writers, including Catherine Theis, have been featured by Poetry Is Productions. Eric is also the author of the duet musical "PLATH/HUGHES," which was awarded the 2014 Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for Best Play and has been produced by Poetry Is Productions in Chicago and New York City. His project "Lorca In America" was awarded a 2015 DCASE Individual Artist Program grant from the City of Chicago and featured the production of his original translation, "Bernarda Alba and Her House," at Redtwist Theatre. His poetry and plays have been featured in Columbia Journal; Water, Water Everywhere; Beats: A Naropan Periodical; Mosaic at University of California Riverside; Tooth N' Nail; Rollick; Literature Emitting Diodes; Chicago After Dark; Thought Notebook; Baseball Bard; 2017's Verde Qu Te Quiero Verde; and his debut collection of poems, 30 Days Dry, from Thought Collection Publishing. We Knew No Mortality is Eric's second book. A third book of hybrid poetry and playwriting, Ca'Venezia and Other Tales, is on the way from Partial Press.
His journalism has been published in Turnout: A Poetic Journalism Zine; Boulder Weekly; Newcity; Evanston Now; Fra Noi Magazine; Artisan Magazine; Printeresting; VAM; and through the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Campus Consortium Fellowship, which sent him to Venice to cover his own project, "Venetian Artisanship and Climate Change."