Eric Burns (blogger)

Eric Alfred Burns (born January 27, 1968) is an American critic, writer, poet, columnist and Role Playing Game developer who lived in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He is known as the creator and one of the principal writers of the popular-culture and webcomic-commentary website Websnark and as the writer of the webcomic Gossamer Commons.

Education

Burns was born and raised in Fort Kent, Maine. He attended college at Boston University for two years before leaving school and moving to Ithaca, New York, where he worked as a professional actor and as a temporary worker for Manpower Inc. At one point, he lived on the top floor of a high rise directly on the Ithaca Commons. Burns later set Gossamer Commons in Ithaca, loosely based on his time living on the Commons. He returned to school, attending the University of Maine at Fort Kent, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Cum Laude. It was Burns's education and training in literary criticism that informed his eventual move into webcomics criticism. Burns was one of the most prolific Superguy writers during this time, eventually contributing just shy of a million words to the creative writing project. Burns also became a published poet during these years, most notably in the Black Fly Review.