PETER WELTNER was raised in northern New Jersey and piedmont North Carolina. He graduated from Hamilton College (A.B.) and Indiana University (Ph.D.) and taught British, Irish, and American literature at San Francisco State for thirty-seven years. He has published twenty books or chapbooks of fiction or poetry. His work has appeared in several national anthologies, including two O. Henry's. He lives with his husband, Atticus Carr, steps away from the Pacific in San Francisco.
