Peter Selgin's short story collection, Drowning Lessons, won the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award. He's also published booklength non-fiction and an award winning children's book. He's also the fiction editor of Alimentum: the Literature of Food. He teaches writing at Gotham Writers Workshop, Manhattan, Montclair State University, and Western Connecticut State University, and holds annual writing workshop in Vitorchiano, Italy.