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Selgin, Peter

Peter Selgin's first book of short stories, Drowning Lessons, won the 2008 Flannery O'Connor Award and was published by the University of Georgia Press. His book on fiction writing, By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers, was published by Writer's Digest Books, 2007. Another, The Secret Life of Fiction, is forthcoming from the same press. His autobiographical work, Life Goes to the Movies, will be published by Dzanc Books in April 2009. His stories and essays have appeared in many publications, including Ploughshares, Salon.com, The Sun, Glimmer Train, Missouri Review, Boulevard, Poets & Writers, Colorado Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review, as well as in the anthologies Our Roots Are Deep With Passion (Other Books, 2006), Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2003), and Best American Essays 2006. He edits the journal Alimentum: The Literature of Food, and leads his own annual writing workshop in Vitorchiano, Italy. He lives in the Bronx, New York.

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