Peter Grandbois is the author of The Gravedigger (Chronicle Books, 2006), a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers” and Borders "Original Voices” selection as well as the hybrid memoir, The Arsenic Lobster (Spuyten Duyvil 2009). His essays and short fiction have appeared in magazines such as: Boulevard, Narrative, Post Road, Gargoyle, Zone 3, Eleven Eleven, The Denver Quarterly, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, and The Writer's Chronicle, among others, and have been short listed for the Pushcart Prize. He serves as associate editor for Narrative magazine and is a professor of creative writing and contemporary literature at California State University in Sacramento.