Peter Harris, born in 1947, has taught at Colby College since 1974. His chapbook, Blue Hallelujahs, won the Maine chapbook competition in 1996. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, and Green Mountains Review, among other places. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Arts, Red Cinder House, and the Tyron Guthrie Center in Ireland, and has been awarded a Martin Dibner Writing Fellowship. Among other things, he's worked as a doodlebugger in an oil search crew for Citgo, a line worker in an artificial Christmas tree filament factory, a cabin boy on a yacht, crew on a shrimp boat in Honduras, a kitchen worker and pot washer, and an assembler in a fancy box factory.
