Peter Grandbois

Peter Grandbois (April 3, 1964) is an American writer and academic.

Biography

Peter Grandbois received a B.A. from the University of Colorado—Boulder (1986, cum laude), an MA from the University of Colorado—Boulder (1991), an MFA from Bennington College (2003), and a PhD from the University of Denver (2006). He was an assistant professor at Sacramento State University for four years before taking a position at Denison University^[1] in 2010 where he is currently a professor of creative writing and contemporary literature. He lives with his family in Granville, OH.

Writing

Grandbois is the author of two novels, a hybrid memoir, a collection of short stories, and three novella collections or "double monster features." His work has been described as navigating the Irreal, particularly the realm between Magical realism and Fabulism. Critics have cited writers ranging from Gabriel García Márquez, Ray Bradbury, Kafka, H.P. Lovecraft, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman, Steven Millhauser and Cormac McCarthy as influences. His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including: Boulevard, The Denver Quarterly, Failbetter,^[2] Gargoyle, The Kenyon Review, New Orleans Review, The Mississippi Review-Online,^[3] Necessary Fiction,^[4] Post Road, Rain Taxi, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Word Riot,^[5] and Zone 3.

His first novel, The Gravedigger, has been translated into Polish and is currently under contract to be filmed in Mexico.^[6]

Awards

• Finalist for the 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the category of Best Short Story Collection, for Domestic Disturbances^[7]
• Gold Medal for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction, for Nahoonkara^[8]
• Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2011 for "Driving to Puerto Rico," which first appeared in The Potomac Review.^[9]
• Honorable Mention, the Pushcart Prize 2007 for "All or Nothing at the Faberge," which first appeared in Post Road.
• Selected for the Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writer's Program" in 2006 for The Gravedigger.^[10]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Gravedigger (Chronicle books, 2006)
• The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009)
• Nahoonkara (Etruscan Press, 2011)

Novella Collections

• Wait Your Turn and The Stability of Large Systems (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2014)
• The Glob Who Girdled Granville and The Secret Lives of Actors (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2014)
• The Girl on the Swing and At Night in Crumbling Voices (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2015)

Short Story Collections

• Domestic Disturbances (Subito Press, 2013)

Plays

• The Woman Who Was Me (New York, United Solo Theatre Festival, 2014)

Translations

• San Juan: Memoir of a City, by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia (University of Wisconsin, 2007)

External links

• Interview (2009) with Peter Grandbois about The Arsenic Lobster in Word Riot
• Interview (2011) with Peter Grandbois in Word Riot

References