Peter Orner

Peter Orner is the author of two novels published by Little, Brown (The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, 2006, Love and Shame and Love, 2010) and two story collections (Esther Stories, 2001, 2013 with new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, 2013), as well as the editor of two oral histories (Voice of Witness/ McSweeney's/ Verso). Orner has been awarded the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. Orner's latest book, Am I Alone Here?, an essay collection/ memoir, is available from Catapult, with illustrations by Eric Orner. Orner currently teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers as well as at San Francisco State University where he is currently chair of the Creative Writing Department.