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.

Asking Questions

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Peter Selgin

It comes up (usually because I bring it up) at every new Montclair class, the question of questions, namely: why don’t my students ask more questions? Today, though, I was grateful to get some honest answers. We don’t want to … Continue reading →

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On Cheating

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Peter Selgin

So—I’ve given my ENWR100 students their first assignment: an essay on Cheating. Yes, cheating: those little (and sometimes not so little) things we all do from time to time to give ourselves an unearned advantage over others. In class we … Continue reading →

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The Man in Blue

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Peter Selgin

I first saw the Man in Blue in June. He was crossing the bicycle seat factory parking lot. I watched him from the top of Cheese Hill through the binoculars I’d inherited from my father. It was ten o’clock on … Continue reading →

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