Peter Turchi

Peter Turchi has written and coedited several books on writing fiction, including Maps of the Imagination, A Muse and a Maze, A Kite in the Wind, and (Don’t) Stop Me if You’ve Heard This Before and Other Essays on Writing Fiction. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Story, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and the Colorado Review, among other journals. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston.