Writers on Writing: Peter Orner

Orner’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, The Forward, San Francisco Chronicle and Ploughshares. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize. Orner was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and the two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship. Orner received a law degree from Northeastern University and an M.F.A. from University of Iowa. He joined SF State’s Creative Writing Department in 2003.

The Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public on Mondays this semester. Taught by Robert Glück, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.