Peter Grandbois

Peter Grandbois (April 3, 1964) is an American writer, editor, 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 serves as senior editor for Boulevard magazine and fiction co-editor for Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism

Writing

Known for his work in all four genres, Grandbois is the author of two novels, a hybrid memoir, a collection of short stories, three novella collections or "double monster features," and several plays produced in New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Columbus. His fiction 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 Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, New Orleans Review, The Mississippi Review-Online,^[3] Necessary Fiction,^[4] Post Road, Prairie Schooner, 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

• Silver Medal for the 2015 Foreword magazine IndieFab Award in the category of Best Fantasy of the Year for The Girl on the Swing and At Night in Crumbling Voices^[7]
• Ohio Arts Council Award, 2015
• Honorable Mention for the 2014 Foreword magazine IndieFab Award in the category of Best Fantasy of the Year for The Glob Who Girdled Granville and The Secret Lives of Actors^[8]
• Finalist for the 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the category of Best Short Story Collection, for Domestic Disturbances^[9]
• Gold Medal for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction, for Nahoonkara^[10]
• Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2011 for "Driving to Puerto Rico," which first appeared in The Potomac Review.^[11]
• 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.^[12]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Gravedigger (Chronicle books, 2006)
• 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)

Memoir

• The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009)

Short story collections

• Domestic Disturbances (Subito Press, 2013)

Plays

• Mutual Consent--cowritten with Nancy Bell (California Repertory Theatre, Long Beach, CA, 2016^[13]
• The Woman Who Was Me (New York, United Solo Theatre Festival, 2014;^[14] United Solo Theatre Festival, 2015^[15] and Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2016^[16])
• "Present Tense"—a One Act—cowritten with Nancy Bell (St. Louis Actor's Studio, Neil Labute Festival, 2013;^[17] The Best of the Neil Labute New Theatre Festival, 59E59 Theatre in New York, 2016^[18])

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
• Interview (2015) with Peter Grandbois in Heavy Feather Review
• Interview (2015) with Peter Grandbois in Midwestern Gothic
• Interview (2016) with Peter Grandbois in Southern New Hampshire University's The Penmen Review

References