Peter Mountford

Fiction Writer

New York, NY

New York US

Email:

peter_mountford@yahoo.com

Website:

www.petermountford.com

Author's Bio

Peter Mountford's debut novel, A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, won the 2012 Washington State Book Award and was a finalist in the 2012 VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize.

His second novel The Dismal Science was published by Tin House Books in 2014, and was named a NYT Editor's Choice.

Peter's work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Granta, Boston Review, The New York Times Magazine, Best New American Voices 2008, Conjunctions, The Atlantic Online, Salon, Slate, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.

A faculty-member at Sierra Nevada College's low-res MFA, Peter is the event curator at Hugo House.

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:

Best New American Voices 2008 (Harcourt, 2007)

Books:

The Dismal Science (Tin House Books, 2014)

A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011)

Journals:

Boston Review

Conjunctions

Michigan Quarterly Review

Phoebe

Seattle Review

Southern Review

ZYZZYVA

Prizes won:

Washington State Book Award (fiction, 2012); 2012 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award (finalist); The Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Cityartist Grant, 2012 and 2010; The Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, 2010; 4Culture Grant, 2011; Bread Loaf Work-Study Scholarship, 2009; Film Independent Screenwriter's Lab, 2009; Finalist for the New Letters 2008 Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award; Story “Horizon” selected as one of “100 Other Distinguished Short Stories of 2007” in Best American Short Stories 2008 (ed. Salman Rushdie); 2007 Boston Review fiction prize, judged by George Saunders (second place); 2006 David Guterson Award

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English, Spanish

Born in:

Washington

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Last update: Sep 15, 2014