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PETER DONAHUE writes fiction and nonfiction. He is the
author of the novel
Madison House (Hawthorne Books, 2005),
winner of the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction, and the short
story collection
The Cornelius Arms (Missing Spoke Press,
2000). His second novel, Clara and Merritt, is
currently nearing completion. All three works
are set in Seattle during different periods
of that city’s short yet dramatic history.
Peter is also co-editor, with John Trombold, of
Reading Seattle: The City in Prose (2004)
and
Reading Portland: The City in Prose (2007),
both published by the University of Washington Press. The anthologies
celebrate the literary legacy of these two dynamic Northwest
cities with special emphasis on their cultural diversity. In
addition, Peter writes the
Retrospective Review column on vintage
Northwest literature that appears in each issue of Columbia:
The Magazine of Northwest History, published by the
Washington State Historical Society. He has also published many
short stories and critical articles on American literature in
literary journals
and
scholarly periodicals.
A graduate of the University of Washington, Virginia Tech, and
Oklahoma State University, Peter is an associate professor of
English at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama, where he
teaches creative writing and journalism and organizes the BACHE
Visiting Writers Series and the annual WRITING TODAY Writers
Conference. As a writing teacher, Peter strives to offer
student-writers every opportunity to pursue their passion for
writing within a challenging and supportive environment.
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