Peter Grimes was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, before earning an MFA in creative writing from the University of Florida. He was the Stanley Elkin scholar at the 2009 Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and his story “Victoria” won Second Place in Narrative’s Spring 2010 Story Contest. A 2011 graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a PhD in creative writing, narrative theory, and Southern literature, Grimes lives with his wife in Cincinnati.