Janet Peery

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Janet Peery is an American short story writer, novelist, and a professor of creative writing. She is the author of the novel The River Beyond the World (Picador/St. Martin’s, 1996), which was a National Book Award finalist for fiction in 1996. Her first book was the acclaimed Alligator Dance (SMU Press, 1993), a collection of short stories. A novel-in- stories, What the Thunder Said (Picador/St. Martin's), was published in 2007. Sometimes considered a "writer's writer" for her dense prose that pays close attention to craft, she has had short stories published in literary journals including Shenandoah, The Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, American Short Fiction, Southwest Review, among many others. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Whiting Writers Award, and an National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She lives in Virginia and teaches at Old Dominion University.

[edit] Bibliography

• Alligator Dance (1993), a collection of short stories.
• The River Beyond the World (1996), a novel.
• What the Thunder Said (2007), a novel

[edit] External links

• Faculty page from the Old Dominion University Department of English.
• November 10, 1996 Review of The River Beyond the World from The New York Times