Peter Schmitt

PETER SCHMITT is the author of six collections of poems: Goodbye, Apostrophe (Regal House); Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books); Hazard Duty, and Country Airport (Copper Beech Press); and two chapbooks, Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices, and To Disappear, both from Pudding House. He has also edited and written the introduction for his late father's remembrance, Pan Am Ferry Tales: A World War II Aviation Memoir (McFarland). He has received The Julia Peterkin Award in Poetry from Converse College; The Lavan Award from The Academy of American Poets; The Discovery/The Nation (92nd Street Y) Prize; an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship; and is a two-time recipient of grants from The Florida Arts Council. His poems have been featured several times on National Public Radio's Writers Almanac, and have appeared in many leading publications including The Hudson Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Southern Review, and in numerous anthologies and textbooks. For information on his books, please contact him directly at pschmitt@miami.edu.