Peter Turchi

Peter Turchi is the author of A Muse and A Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic; Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer; a collection of short stories, Magician; and a novel, The Girls Next Door. His short story "Night, Truck, Two Lights Burning" has been produced as an artist's book with images by Charles Ritchie. He wrote the text for the exhibition catalog, Suburban Journals: The Sketchbook, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie. He co-edited, with Andrea Barrett, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft, and The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work; and, with Charles Baxter, Bringing the Devil to his Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life. Turchi directed the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College for 15 years and the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University for 5 years. He now teaches at the University of Houston, where Laura, his wife, teaches education. Their son, Reed, is a musician (theturchi.com). For more information and resources for writers, see peterturchi.com and peterturchi.tumblr.com.