Background

MA in Creative Writing, City College

BA, Sarah Lawrence College

 

Awards

Whiting Award

The Nelson Algren Prize for Short Fiction

Artist's Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts

Peter Trachtenberg is the author of The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown August 2008) and Seven Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh (Crown, 1997). His fiction, essays, and reportage have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Bomb, A Public Space, TriQuarterly, O: The Oprah Magazine, and The New York Times Travel Magazine. He has performed his monologues at Dixon Place, PS 122, and The Kitchen and has broadcast his commentaries on NPR’s All Things Considered. When not teaching at UNC Wilmington, he lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife.

www.petertrachtenberg.com

Publications

The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning

Seven Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh