Author Archives: Peter Selgin

About Peter Selgin

Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, two books on the craft of fiction, and several children’s books. His memoir, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, was short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize. His latest novel, The Water Master, won the William Faulkner Society Prize, selected by Random House Senior Editor Will Murphy. His work has won the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, the Dana Award, six Best American Essay notable essay citations, and two selections for the Best American series. A second memoir, The Inventors, is forthcoming from Hawthorne Books in April of 2016. He teaches at Antioch University’s MFA program and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University.

The Charmed Life

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Peter Selgin

Home with Audrey now for two days. She’s very fussy when awake, and (much like her Papa) seems to find the waking world unsatisfactory in almost every way. Unlike him, she hasn’t yet learned to express her dissatisfaction in words … Continue reading →

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David Levine

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Peter Selgin

(Note: I first write and posted this at the beginning of this year, but removed the post, since I felt it violated the artist’s privacy. David Levine died on Tuesday. He was 83.) I met him at the Museum of … Continue reading →

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The Train

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Peter Selgin

I remember one locomotive, in black and white, smashing into another.At seven years old not something you forget. The moving image of those two trains colliding, the accelerated chuffings of one locomotive bearing down on another splayed across the tracks, … Continue reading →

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Wild, Wild West

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Peter Selgin

Like most if not all boys I wanted to be a hero, and tuned in to the TV to see what latest models were available. There was one program, black and white at first, called The Wild, Wild West. Maybe … Continue reading →

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