This week meet one of my most beloved brother mans 🙂 Peter Grandbois, author of seven books, including: The Gravedigger, selected by Barnes and Noble for its “Discover Great New Writers” program, The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir, chosen as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by the Sacramento News and Review, Nahoonkara, winner of the gold medal in literary fiction in Foreword magazine’s Book of the Year Awards for 2011, a collection of surreal flash fictions, Domestic Disturbances, a finalist for Book of the Year in Foreword magazine’s 2013 awards, and the novella collections or “monster double features,” Wait Your Turn, The Glob Who Girdled Granville (Honorable Mention, IndieFab award in the category of best fantasy of 2014), and The Girl on the Swing. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and been shortlisted for both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. His plays have been performed in St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. He is senior editor at Boulevard magazine and fiction co-editor at Phantom Drift.
Peter is a graduate of the University of Denver (Ph.D. 2006) and Bennington College (M.F.A. 2003). Previously, he taught at California State University in Sacramento and is currently an associate professor at Denison University.
Nahoonkara is my favorite 🙂
Praise for Nahoonkara
In the tradition of nature writers Rick Bass and Annie Dillard, award winning writer Peter Grandbois’ new novel Nahoonkara opens up an oneiric space of wonder, a place outside preconceived notions of reality and identity, a place where we are free to re-imagine ourselves.
“[Nahoonkara]…incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction, but nothing that pulls the reader out of the fictional dream.”
—Robin Martin,Gently Read Literature
“Departing from traditional narrative form, Grandbois moves masterfully between first, second, and third persons to invite readers into a textual visualization of how individual choices affect the well-being of the community.” —Review of Contemporary Fiction
“Peter Grandbois is a splendid writer I intend to follow very closely.”
—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
“Vividly drawn, exquisitely crafted, Nahoonkara bespeaks not just the promise of its author, but also his undeniable power.”—Laird Hunt, author of Ray of the Star
Buy Peter’s beautiful books!
Nahoonkara
The Gravedigger
https://www.amazon.com/Gravedigger-Peter-Grandbois/dp/0811858189
The Girl on the Swing: Two Novellas
http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/#wsfn3_girl
The Glob Who Girdled Granville & The Secret Lives of Actors: Two Novellas
http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/#wsfn2_glob
Wait Your Turn & The Stability of Large Systems: Two Novellas
http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/#grandbois1_waityourturn
The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/arsenic-lobster1.html
Domestic Disturbances
http://www.subitopress.org/catalog/2013-2/grandbois
More from Peter Online
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/2971
http://penmenreview.com/spotlight/penmen-profile-peter-grandbois/
http://midwestgothic.com/2015/07/interview-peter-grandbois/
http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2013/10/peter-grandbois-listens-to-images.html
http://www.smokelong.com/smoking-with-peter-grandbois/
And he fences too!!! 🙂
https://denisonmagazine.com/article/uncommon-ground-the-secret-lives-of-professors-peter-grandbois
Hear Peter Read 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awJ9W7SlQ6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DHaPjIYTro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su84xHD7PXs
And there’s fencing video too! 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeJK5-q1WG0
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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