Called “a master of his form” by the New York Times, Peter Orner’s insightful short stories invite readers into a radiant, authentic world that “shimmers with life,” according to Andrea Barrett. Peter’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, Ploughshares and many other publications. His stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice received a Pushcart Prize. Peter has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship.
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