Eckhard Gerdes (born 1959) is an American novelist and editor. He earned his MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He is the author of five published novels:

• Projections Depth Charge Press
• Ring in a River Depth Charge Press
• Truly Fine Citizen Highlander Press
• Cistern Tawdry Fugue State Press
• Przewalski's Horse Red Hen Press

His work, often darkly humorous, frequently crosses boundaries of fictional technique, ignoring time, space, cause and effect at will, in the service of stories of individuals struggling to transcend fear and limitation.

Noteworthy reviews of his work have appeared in Rain Taxi, Notre Dame Review, and Review of Contemporary Fiction among many others.

Eckhard Gerdes is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, a series of books often consisting of ambitious Festschrifts on a single writer (e.g. John Barth, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe). He has also written on modern and post-modern literature for Review of Contemporary Fiction and other magazines.

He lives in Chicago with his wife Susan; he has five children.

American literary critics | American novelists | Postmodernists