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Official Website of Author and Educator

French Dive

Living More with Less in the
South of France
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About
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Bio

Eric Freeze grew up in southern Alberta, Canada in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies. He studied creative writing and African-American literature in the US, getting a PhD at Ohio University and eventually teaching at Wabash College in Indiana where he is a tenured professor. He writes both fiction and creative nonfiction, and teaches in other genres such as screenwriting and writing for video games.

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French Dive: Living More with Less in the South of France is Freeze’s second book of creative nonfiction. His first is a collection of essays titled Hemingway on a Bike (2014), another book that also celebrates his experiences living and working in France. He has published two short story collections: Dominant Traits (2012), and Invisible Men (2016), and a recent textbook, Story Mode: The Creative Writer's Guide to Narrative Video Game Design (2024).  His stories, essays, and translations appear in numerous periodicals including The Southern Review, Boston Review, and Harvard Review.

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He is married to academic and birth educator Rixa Freeze and is the father of four bilingual soccer-crazed children. He lives half the year in Crawfordsville, Indiana and the other half in Nice, France.

Press

A captivating and insightful meditation on making a home among strangers.

KIRKUS REVIEWS starred review

for French Dive

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Events
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Events

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February 7-10, 2024: AWP Conference, Kansas City, MO. "Story Mode 2.0: Exercises for Writing Narrative Video Games."

 

October 5, 2023: Interviewed on WGN TV Morning Show: https://wgntv.com/morning-news/family-moves-to-france-to-raise-kids-differently/

 

September 23, 2023: Featured on CNN Travel: "This US-based couple bought a cheap apartment in France to give their kids a different upbringing"

 

July 5-7, 2023: La Maison Baldwin Writers Conference, Nice, France.

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March 10, 2023. AWP Conference, Seattle, WA: “Story Mode 1.0: Teaching Narrative Video Games and How to Write Them.” 

 

October 14, 2022: Reading at Brigham Young University. English Reading Series. Noon, HBLL Auditorium.

https://ers.byu.edu/

 

October 13, 2022: Reading at Helicon West. 7 PM, CacheARTS Thatcher-Young Mansion. Logan, UT. https://heliconwest.wordpress.com/

 

June 16-17, 2022: International Conference on James Baldwin, Nice, France: Baldwin and White Identity: Trouble with Friends and Allies. https://www.lamaisonbaldwin.fr/conference-program

 

March 25, 2022: AWP Conference, Philadelphia, PA: Game On 3.0: Teaching Branching Narratives.

https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/21842

 

November 4, 2021: Reading at Café Simone, 8 PM, Nice, France.

 

June 26, 2021: With Pam Houston, Nate Marshall, and Jake Skeets on Desire. Printemps des Poètes. Grotte du Lazaret, Nice, France.

 

March 8, 2021: Interview with Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. 

​link: https://www.assayjournal.com/eric-freeze.html​

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March 7, 2021: "FRENCH DIVE and FINNA: Authors Eric Freeze and Nate Marshall On What It Means to Be a Neighbor, a Member of a Community, and a Global Citizen." Book Bar Bookstore, Denver, CO.

link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/french-dive-and-finna/register​

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Feb 16, 2021: French Dive book launch. Wabash College, IN. (Zoom virtual event)​

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Jan 21, 2021: Readings by Writers: Eric Freeze, with Pam Houston.

link: https://vimeo.com/503603482/e064dd7537

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Dec 4, 2020: Reading at The King's English bookstore, Salt Lake City, UT

link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/tke-presents-online--2/register

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Nov 23, 2020: Interview with Slant

link: https://slantbooks.com/close-reading/interviews/smaller-lighter-closer-qa-with-eric-freeze/

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