Peter Trachtenberg
Writer, Associate Professor Emeritus at University of Pittsburgh
- Role
- Writer at Wonders Press
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Peter Trachtenberg
To reveal the beauty and strangeness and sadness of things.
Experience
Writer
Jan 1980 — Present
Author of 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh and The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and It\'s Meaning. Another Insane Devotion, a new work of nonfiction, was published in November 2012 by Da Capo Press. Awards include the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, a NYFA Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Bellagio Residency.
Education
Sarah Lawrence College
BA, English, Theater
1971 — 1974
The City College of New York
MA, Creative Writing
1977 — 1980
Skills
- Blogging
- Research
- Teaching
- Publishing
- Memoir
- Journalism
- Creative Non-Fiction
- Social Media
- Creative Writing
- Fiction
- Nonfiction Writing, Literature, Criticism, Cultural Studies, Copyediting
- Editorial
- Non-Fiction
- Storytelling
- Short Stories
- Copy Editing
- Writing
- Editing
- Proofreading
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