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Peter Turchi is the author of five books, including Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, published by Trinity University Press; a novel, The Girls Next Door; and a collection of stories, Magician. He has co-edited, with Andrea Barrett, 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, a collection of essays by Warren Wilson MFA faculty. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and Colorado Review, among other magazines. He wrote and edited the catalogue for the touring exhibition Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings and Prints of Charles Ritchie. His story “Living Animal” is in the current issue of Redivider; an essay, “A Few Perhaps Inappropriate Thoughts on Matters I’ve Found Unspeakable,” is in the current Seattle Review. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, and North Carolina’s Sir Walter Raleigh Award, he has taught at the University of Houston, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the University of Arizona, Northwestern University, and Appalachian State University. He served as Director of Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers from 1993-2008. He currently teaches at Arizona State University, where he is Director of Creative Writing and Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. His essays on writing workshops and annotations are posted under “Resources for Writers” at www.peterturchi.com.