Peter Orner

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Peter Orner is an American writer of fiction. He is the author of a novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (2006) and the short story collection Esther Stories (2001). His short fiction has been published in the Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review, as well as the Pushcart Prize Anthology, New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond and The Best American Short Stories 2001.

A resident of San Francisco, he is on the faculty of the graduate writing program at San Francisco State University. He is also a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, a workspace co-operative that also includes Po Bronson, Caroline Paul, Tom Barbash, Jason Roberts, ZZ Packer, and B. Ruby Rich, among others.

Orner was born in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990 and later collected a law degree from Northeastern University and an MFA from the famed Iowa Writer's Workshop. His older brother is Eric Orner, the creator of the comic "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green."

[edit] Honors

• Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)
• Lannan Literary Fellowship (2006)
• Bard Fiction Prize (2007)
• Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize Best Fiction (2007)
• Rome Prize in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002-2003)
• Samuel Goldberg Award for Jewish Fiction
• New York Times Notable Book (for Esther Stories)
• Finalist, PEN Hemingway Award
• Finalist, Young Lions Fiction Prize (2002)

[edit] External links

• Orner's home page
• An interview with Orner
• Excerpts from The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
• 2007 Bard Fiction Prize