Eli Cranor

About

Eli Cranor played quarterback in college and then coached high school football for five years. He now writes from Arkansas where he lives with his family. He was awarded the Robert Watson Literary Prize by the Greensboro Review and honored by the Missouri Review for their 2018 Miller Audio Prize. He is currently at work on a novel. For more information visit elicranor.com.

Articles

HAIRY

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. In college I had long hair past my shoulders. I always got weird when it came time for the seniors to shave the freshmen’s heads. We did it...

By Eli Cranor

HEART

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Every football coach I ever had saw it. “You got heart, kid,” they’d say, and I’d grin, all the way to the end zone.

By Eli Cranor

MADDOG

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. I devoted twenty years of my life to football. Played quarterback at every level: peewee to professional. After my playing days were done, I...

By Eli Cranor

SON

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. A good friend and former coach of mine once told me that having a girl was easier because there weren’t any expectations. Like, his daughter...

By Eli Cranor

STORMS

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Over the last three years, Alex and I have spent a total of eight summer nights in the Carlton Marion Inn. It’s a tidy motel with a gravel...

By Eli Cranor

WHY

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. For twenty years, football was my purpose, my reason, white lines and rules for everything, the scoreboard keeping track of it all. Do I want...

By Eli Cranor