Peter Grandbois

Peter Grandbois
Born (1964-04-03) April 3, 1964
Minneapolis, MN
Occupation Writer
Nationality United States
Website
www.petergrandbois.com

Peter Grandbois (April 3, 1964) is an American writer, editor, academic, and fencing coach

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 a senior editor for Boulevard magazine.

He is also the head coach of the Denison University Fencing Team.[2] They compete in the Midwest Fencing Conference.

Writing

Known for his work in all four genres, Grandbois is the author of two novels, two memoirs, 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 poems, short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including: Boulevard, The Denver Quarterly, Failbetter,[3] Gargoyle, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The Mississippi Review-Online,[4] Necessary Fiction,[5] Post Road, New Orleans Review, The Normal School, North Dakota Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Rain Taxi, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Word Riot,[6] and Zone 3.

His first novel, The Gravedigger, has been translated into Polish and is currently under contract to be filmed in Mexico.[7]

Awards

  • Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018 for "Passion," which first appeared in Mount Hope[8]
  • Honorable Mention for the 2017 ForeWord Magazine INDIES Award in the category of Best Poetry Collection of the Year for This House That[9]
  • Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2017 for "Honor," which first appeared in the North Dakota Quarterly.[10]
  • The Woman Who Was Me, nominated for five New York Innovative Theatre Awards, including: Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play and Outstanding Solo Performance, 2017[11]
  • Winner of the Brighthorse Books Poetry Prize, 2016 for This House That[12]
  • 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[13]
  • Ohio Arts Council Award, 2015
  • Honorable Mention in Best American Horror, volume 7, ed. by Ellen Datlow, for "The Stability of Large Systems," 2015[14]
  • 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[15]
  • Winner of the Neil Labute New Theatre Festival, St. Louis, 2013
  • Finalist for the 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the category of Best Short Story Collection, for Domestic Disturbances[16]
  • Gold Medal for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction, for Nahoonkara[17]
  • Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2011 for "Driving to Puerto Rico," which first appeared in The Potomac Review.[18]
  • 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.[19]

Bibliography

Novels

Novella collections

Memoir

Short story collections

Poetry

Plays

  • Mutual Consent--cowritten with Nancy Bell (California Repertory Theatre, Long Beach, CA, 2016[20]
  • The Woman Who Was Me (New York, United Solo Theatre Festival, 2014;[21] United Solo Theatre Festival, 2015,[22] Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2016,[23] and Theatre Lab, New York: 2017 [24])
  • "Present Tense"—a One Act—cowritten with Nancy Bell (St. Louis Actor's Studio, Neil Labute Festival, 2013;[25] The Best of the Neil Labute New Theatre Festival, 59E59 Theatre in New York, 2016[26])

Translations

References

  1. ↑ "DENISON UNIVERSITY FACULTY WEB PAGE". Denison University. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ https://denisonfencing.org/coach/
  3. ↑ "FAILBETTER MAGAZINE". Failbetter. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
  4. ↑ "BLIP MAGAZINE ARCHIVES". BLIP Magazine. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
  5. ↑ "NECESSARY FICTION". Necessary Fiction. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
  6. ↑ "WORD RIOT". Word Riot. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
  7. ↑ "MERTIN LITERARY AGENCY". Retrieved 2012-05-16.
  8. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Essays-2018-%C2%AE/dp/0544817346/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537540070&sr=1-1&keywords=best+american+essays+2018/
  9. ↑ https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winners/2017/poetry/
  10. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Essays-2017-%C2%AE/dp/0544817338/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506817916&sr=1-1&keywords=best+american+essays+2017
  11. ↑ http://broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/Nominees-Announced-for-the-2017-Innovative-Theatre-Awards-Full-List-20170726
  12. ↑ https://www.brighthorsebooks.com/news-and-events
  13. ↑ https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/winners/2015/fantasy/
  14. ↑ https://ellendatlow.com/2015/09/21/full-rec-list-best-horror-of-the-year-volume-seven-a-l/
  15. ↑ https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/winners/2014/fantasy/
  16. ↑ https://botya.forewordreviews.com/books/domestic-disturbances/. Retrieved March 17, 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ↑ "FOREWORD REVIEWS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS". Foreword Magazine. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  18. ↑ "BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS NOTABLE ESSAYS 2011". Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  19. ↑ "BARNES AND NOBLE DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS". Barnes and Noble. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  20. ↑ http://www.everythinglongbeach.com/55166-2/
  21. ↑ http://unitedsolo.org/us/2014-thewomanwhowasme/
  22. ↑ http://unitedsolo.org/us/thewoman-2015/
  23. ↑ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-woman-who-was-me-tickets-21067048108
  24. ↑ http://theaterlabnyc.com/events/the-woman-who-was-me-2/
  25. ↑ http://stlas.org/seasons/season-6/labute-new-theater-festival-2013/
  26. ↑ http://www.59e59.org/moreinfo.php?showid=230
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