Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction, and Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, as well as two books on writing craft, By Cunning & Craft and 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers, just out from Writers Digest Books. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, a memoir in essays whose title essay was included in Best American Essays 2006, will be published by University of Iowa Press/Sightline Books in 2011. He is currently Viebranz Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University.

Drowning Lessons
Winner of the 2007 FLANNERY O'CONNOR AWARD for Short Fiction
Coming out in Paperback in 2011

"[Selgin]'s ability to sling together desire and suffering in complex and moving ways is singular and memorable." —Booklist

"Selgin's prose . . . reads like poetry. It's hard to choose a passage to quote." —Newpages.com