A word from the author
“You can anticipate and plan. And plan you should. Don’t forget the energy bars, the gifts for your friends, the printer, the hair conditioner for RM. But you should know your plans will only take you to the shore. At some point, you will have to step off into the river. You will have to feel where the currents want to take you. And you will have to swim.”
- from To Die and Live in Zanzibar, 25 March 2016
Marc Eichen has a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University. From 2015-19 he was a Visiting Faculty member at the State University of Zanzibar. His fiction focuses on life in Zanzibar and in red-state America.
His book of short stories, Three Stories/Hadithi Tatu, has been published in English and Swahili by Mkuki na Nyota (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) and the African Books Collective (London).
Marc’s stories have appeared in Still Points Arts Quarterly, West Trade Review, The Good Life Review, Toyon, Wrong Turn Lit and The Chautauqua Journal. He is the winner of the Richard Cortez Day Prize in fiction and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and the Best of Small Fictions, 2023.
Current projects include a second book of short stories to be published by Mkuki na Nyota, a mystery set in Zanzibar and a novel of loss and renewal set in Sandpoint, Idaho. He is represented by Kristen Che at Blue Hen.