Peter Turchi

Peter Turchi is the author of a novel, a collection of stories, and two books of nonfiction, including Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer. He co-wrote and edited the exhibition catalog Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie. He co-edited, with Andrea Barrett, The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work, and with Charles Baxter, Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life. He is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and North Carolina's Sir Walter Raleigh Award. He has taught at the University of Arizona, Northwestern University, the University of Houston, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Since 1993 he has taught Fiction in and served as Director of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.