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Peter Turchi is the author of a novel, The Girls Next Door, and of a collection of short stories, Magician, that received North Carolina's Sir Walter Raleigh Award. He has co-edited, with Charles Baxter, Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life and, with Andrea Barrett, The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work. Most recently he has co-written, with the artist, Suburban Journals: The Notebooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie, an exhibition catalog. |
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Turchi's stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, and other magazines. "The Night Sky" and "Night, Truck, Two Lights Burning" were recognized in Best American Short Stories; the latter was also recognized in the O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received an Illinois Arts Council Writer's Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant.
Turchi received his BA from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where he won the Sophie Kerr Prize for writing, and his MFA from the University of Arizona. After teaching in Chicago at DePaul University, Loyola University, Columbia College, the College of DuPage, and Northwestern University, then in Boone, North Carolina at Appalachian State University, he moved with his wife and son to Asheville, North Carolina, where he has taught in and directed the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 1993. |
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