Peter Grandbois Affiliation: Faculty Title: Assistant Professor Office: Barney-Davis 307 Email: grandboisp@denison.edu Phone: 740-587-5793

Peter Grandbois is the author of The Gravedigger (Chronicle 2006), a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" and Borders' "Original Voices" selection, The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir (Spuyten Duyvil 2009), chosen as one of the top five memoirs of 2009 by the Sacramento News and Review, and Nahoonkara (Etruscan Press 2010). His short stories have appeared in such journals as: Boulevard, The Mississippi Review, Post Road, New Orleans Review, The Denver Quarterly, and Gargoyle. He is also the PEN nominated translator of Rodriguez Julia's San Juan: Memoir of a City (University of Wisconsin 2007).

Peter is a graduate of the University of Denver (Ph.D. 2006) and Bennington College (M.F.A. 2003). Previously, he taught at California State University in Sacramento and is currently an Assistant Professor of creative writing and contemporary literature at Denison University.