Peter Grandbois

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 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," a poetry collection, 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 poems, short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including: Boulevard, The Denver Quarterly, Failbetter, Gargoyle, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The Mississippi Review-Online, Necessary Fiction, Post Road, New Orleans Review, The Normal School, North Dakota Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Rain Taxi, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Word Riot, and Zone 3.

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

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