Eric Chock is a Hawaiian poet, scholar and editor.
He served as a professor of English and humanities at the University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu,[1] and coordinated the state's "Poets in the Schools" program for more than twenty years.
[3] Authors whose works appeared in Bamboo Ridge included Gary Pak, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Rodney Morales, Wing Tek Lum, and Cathy Song.
[4] The success and influence of the Bamboo Ridge group of writers, among whom Chock himself was included, was later examined in detail by literary critic Rob Wilson in his study Reimagining the American Pacific.
[5] Chock has also edited several anthologies featuring Hawaiian writers, as well as Small Kid Time Hawaii and Haku Mele o Hawaii, two collections of children's poetry.