Discipline: Literature – fiction

Peter Malae

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Cottage Grove, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008
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Peter Malae is the author of the forthcoming novel, SON OF AMITY (2018); the novels, OUR FRAIL BLOOD (13) and WHAT WE ARE (2010), a New York Times Editor’s Choice, San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Award winner and Pacific Northwest Booksellers finalist; the story collection, TEACH THE FREE MAN (2007), a New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award finalist, Glasgow Prize finalist and Story Prize notable book; and the play, THE QUESTION (2015), an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship winner. His prose has appeared in Cimarron Review, Glimmer Train, Missouri Review, North Dakota Quarterly, South Carolina Review, South Dakota Review, Southwest Review, Witness, ZYZZYVA, and other presses. A former John Steinbeck, Arts Council Silicon Valley and MacDowell Fellow, Malae lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Studios

Calderwood

Peter Malae worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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