Chicago born Peter Orner’s fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, The Forward, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Ploughshares. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize. Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship (2007-2008). A film version of one of Orner’s stories, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and the film’s director, Rob Jones, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner. His works include Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, Esther Stores, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, Love and Shame and Love, Underground America, and Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. www.peterorner.net.
First Draft - Peter Orner
