Eric Orosco

Eric Orosco's work has appeared in After Happy Hour Review, The Rome Review, mutiny!, The Tiny, and Jokes Review. 

He was a finalist for the 2026 Robert Day Award for Fiction as well as on the long list for the 2025 Susan Neville Prize in Fiction. 

In Spring 2027, he will be part of Lambda Literary’s inaugural Creative Incubator for LGBTQ+ Writers. 

He's currently at work on his first novel while living in the Bay Area with his husband and two pear-shaped cats.

upcoming publications

• "Flashes of a Relationship Long Spoiled" | Mouthful of Salt, Volume 04 of Granules (2026)

• "the public places" | HALSEY Literary Reader (2026)

Published Work

• "Giving a film three stars on Letterboxd because I didn't like how my husband looked at me after" | The Rome Review (2025)

• "Unbecoming" | After Happy Hour Review (2025)

• "Anaphoric Self-Portrait" | mutiny! (2019)

• "Somewhere in Sacramento" | The Tiny (2018)

• "How to Be an Artist and Love What You Do and Make Money Doing It | Jokes Review (2016)