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name: Peter Grandbois
about: Peter Grandbois is the author of fourteen books, including: The Gravedigger, selected by Barnes and Noble for its “Discover Great New Writers” program, The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir, chosen as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by the Sacramento News and Review, Nahoonkara, winner of the gold medal in literary fiction in Foreword magazine's Book of the Year Awards for 2011, a collection of surreal flash fictions, Domestic Disturbances, a finalist for Book of the Year in Foreword magazine’s 2013 awards, three novella collections or “monster double features,” Wait Your Turn, The Glob Who Girdled Granville (Honorable Mention for Best Fantasy of 2014 in the IndieFab Awards), The Girl on the Swing (Silver Medalist for Best Fantasy of 201 Peter Grandbois is the author of fourteen books, including: The Gravedigger, selected by Barnes and Noble for its “Discover Great New Writers” program, The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir, chosen as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by the Sacramento News and Review, Nahoonkara, winner of the gold medal in literary fiction in Foreword magazine's Book of the Year Awards for 2011, a collection of surreal flash fictions, Domestic Disturbances, a finalist for Book of the Year in Foreword magazine’s 2013 awards, three novella collections or “monster double features,” Wait Your Turn, The Glob Who Girdled Granville (Honorable Mention for Best Fantasy of 2014 in the IndieFab Awards), The Girl on the Swing (Silver Medalist for Best Fantasy of 2015 in the IndieFab Awards), the poetry collection, This House That (Honorable Mention for Best Poetry Collection in the INDIES Awards 2017), the memoir in essays, Kissing the Lobster, the novel, half-burnt (Finalist for Best Multicultural Fiction in the INDIES Awards, 2019), the poetry collections The Three-Legged World, Everything Has Become Birds, and the Snyder Prize winning poetry collection, Last Night I Aged a Hundred Years, as well as most recently a collection of fictions entitled Domestic Bestiary. His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in over one hundred magazines and been shortlisted for both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. His plays have been performed in St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. He is the Poetry Editor at Boulevard magazine and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. ...more