Peter Turchi is the author of six books and the co-editor of three anthologies. His work has appeared online in Tin House, The Huffington Post, and Fiction Writers Review, and in Ploughshares, Story, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and The Colorado Review, among other journals. He has received Washington College’s Sophie Kerr Prize, an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, North Carolina’s Sir Walter Raleigh Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has taught at Northwestern University and Appalachian State University, has been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and served as a visiting professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston. From 1993 through 2008 he directed The M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. At Arizona State University he taught fiction and served as director of creative writing and director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. He currently teaches nonfiction and fiction at the University of Houston, and fiction in Warren Wilson’s M.F.A. Program for Writers.
Peter Turchi
Studios
MacDowell
Peter Turchi worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…