Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction, and Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, as well as two books on writing craft, By Cunning & Craft and 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers, just out from Writers Digest Books. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, a memoir in essays whose title essay was included in Best American Essays 2006, will be published by University of Iowa Press/Sightline Books in 2011. He is on the faculty of Antioch University's MFA writing program and is Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Rollins College.

The Water Master
Winner of the 2011 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Prize for Best Novel
Selected by Random House Editor Will Murphy

Drowning Lessons
Winner of the 2007 FLANNERY O'CONNOR AWARD for Short Fiction
Coming out in Paperback in 2011

"[Selgin]'s ability to sling together desire and suffering in complex and moving ways is singular and memorable." —Booklist

"Selgin's prose . . . reads like poetry. It's hard to choose a passage to quote." —Newpages.com

"The quirky, intelligent memoir of an artist and fiction writer. An engaging, original modern-day picaresque." —Kirkus Reviews

"Selgin deftly balances humor and tenderness throughout these life-affirming confessions." —Publishers Weekly