Peter Orner is the author of two novels, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love, as well as two story collections, Esther Stories, reissued with a foreword by Marilynne Robinson, and Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (Little, Brown, 2013). He is also the editor of two nonfiction works, Underground America and Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. Born in Chicago, Orner now lives in San Francisco.
Photograph by Traci Griffin.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Best Advice, a feature, in Winter 2014
- First Love, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2011–2012
- The Divorce, a short story, in Winter 2011
- Occidental Hotel, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2010–2011
- Esther Stories, a review or criticism, in Winter 2007