Website: peterturchi.com

Publications

• A Muse and A Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic , Trinity University Press
• Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer , Trinity University Press
• Magician , Dutton
• The Girls Next Door , New American Library
• Bringing the Devil to His Knees , University of Michigan
• A Kite in the Wind , Trinity University Press
• The Story Behind the Story , Norton

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

Employment

• Director, MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (May 1993 - 2008)
• Faculty member, MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (1993 - 2013)
• Professor of English/Creative Writing at University of Houston (August 2013 - )
• Professor of English/Creative Writing at Arizona State University (August 2008 - May 2013)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from Washington College (May 1982)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing/Fiction from University of Arizona (January 1986)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction