Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2008). He has published two novels, Life Goes To the Movies (Dzanc, 2009) and Duplicity (Serving House, Books 2020, winner of both the 2021 Best Indie Book Award and the 2021 Indie Excellence Book Award), three books on the craft of fiction writing (Writers Digest, Serving House Books), and a children's picture book, S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic (Simon & Schuster). His first essay collection, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man (University of Iowa, 2012), was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize. A novel-in-manuscript, "The Water Master,"won the Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for Best Novel and will be published as A Boy's Guide to Outer Space by Regal House Publishing in the Fall of 2024. His memoir, The Inventors (Hawthorne Books) won the Housatonic Book Award and was among Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2016. His work has appeared in the Missouri Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, The Sun, Ploughshares, Salon, Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. He is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia, where he is also Nonfiction Editor and Art Director of Arts & Letters, the international journal of poetry and prose.
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