Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| ESPN Quick Pitches: A Star-Studded Lineup of Original Sports Fiction | 2011 | Buy |
| Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts | 2012 | Buy |
| Loosed Upon the World | 2015 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Bear v. Shark | 2001 | Buy |
| U.S.! | 2006 | Buy |
| Abbott Awaits | 2011 | Buy |
| The Throwback Special | 2015 | Buy |
| Dayswork | 2023 | Buy |
Chris Bachelder was born in Minneapolis in 1971 and grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia. He holds a B.A. from Virginia Tech and an M.F.A. from the University of Florida. He has taught at Colorado College, New Mexico State University, and UMass Amherst, and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. His fiction and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s, The Believer, and The Paris Review.
His five novels range from the fragmented media satire of Bear v. Shark (2001) to the quiet domestic comedy of Abbott Awaits (2011). The Throwback Special (2015), about 40 men who gather annually to re-enact the NFL play in which Lawrence Taylor broke Joe Theismann’s leg, was a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent novel, Dayswork (2023), co-written with his wife, poet Jennifer Habel, follows a woman who obsessively researches Herman Melville during pandemic lockdown.