Picture of me at Enchanted Rock State Park

Contact me at: eric@claybeast.net

I am a library employee, having worked my entire library career at the Univesity of Texas at Austin. Most recently, I was working on the paper side of Digitization Services, where I helped with the ongoing development of the online collection and the UT Digital Repository.

I've recently relocated from Austin, Texas to Northern Virginia. It's really exciting to be near the Smithsonian Institution museums, but very sad to be so far away from my family, my friends, and all those delicious breakfast tacos (namely Maria's Taco Xpress and Torchy's).

I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, where my raison d'être was making clay slab sculptures and functional anthropomorphised pottery. In addition to my interest in clay work, I enjoy drawing in my sketchbooks and writing and drawing comics.

Other pastimes I enjoy include baking (typically pies, cookies and breads), grilling, and fixing broken things.