Peter Orner

Contributor History

  • Two Stories, Conjunctions: 82, Summer 2024
  • Four More Stories, Conjunctions: 79, Fall 2022
  • Four Stories, Conjunctions: 76, Summer 2021
  • Maggie Brown & Others, Online Exclusive Audio, Fall 2019
  • On the Floor, Beside the Bed, Online Exclusive, Fall 2018
  • The Return, Conjunctions: 70, Spring 2018
  • My Uncle Dave Reads Spinoza as His Cookie Business Collapses Due to a Rise in the Price of Sugar in the Dominican Republic, Conjunctions: 69, Fall 2017
  • Shhhhhh, Arthur’s Studying, Conjunctions: 57, Fall 2011
  • Lincoln, Conjunctions: 55, Fall 2010
  • Geraldo, Conjunctions: 53, Fall 2009
  • The Aquarium of the Dead: Chicago Stories, Conjunctions: 50, Spring 2008
  • Birding with Lanioturdus, Conjunctions: 49, Summer 2007
  • Birding with Lanioturdus, Online Exclusive Audio, Summer 2007

Biography

Bard Fiction Prize winner Peter Orner is the author of two novels, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love (both Little, Brown); and three story collections, Esther Stories (Back Bay Books), Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, and Maggie Brown & Others (both Little, Brown). His memoir, Am I Alone Here? (Catapult), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A new collection of essays, Notes in the Margin, will be out next year. Orner’s stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and twice received a Pushcart Prize. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont. (http://peterorner.com/)