Called “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches has lived his creative life in the literary, music, and performance worlds of New York City and beyond for over four decades. He has published three volumes of short fiction with Pelekinesis since 2013, most recently Whistler’s Mother’s Son, as well as two chapbooks with Bamboo Dart Press, Masks: Stories from a Pandemic, and Tracks: Memoirs from a Life with Music. He is a native of Brooklyn, New York.