Chris Erickson is a figure from Decatur, Illinois.

HENRYTOWN from Dzanc Books & Graver Goods is his debut novella. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Reader, Gigantic, Action Spectacle, Capilano Review, Seneca Review, PANK, benmarcus.com, The Hobo-Tramp Voice, Byline, and The Glacier. 

He has performed lore in a number of enclosures, including Bathers Library, E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts, Third Space Art Collective, Literary Death Match - Los Angeles, John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Sacramento Poetry Center, Uncle Carl’s Merchant Street condo-unit, and Slatter's Court. 

He is the former host of “Boxcar Whitey’s Old-Time Music & Lore Progr’m,” which aired on KRCL FM Salt Lake City from 2003-05 and then on KDRT FM Davis from 2006-08.