Summary

Peter Mountford&w88 online live casino;s debut novel, A Young Man&w88 online live casino;s Guide to Late Capitalism (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), won the 2012 Washington State Book Award and was a finalist in the 2012 VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize. His second novel The Dismal Science was a New York Times editor&w88 online live casino;s choice. In her full page review in the Sunday Times, Martha McPhee wrote, “Mountford&w88 online live casino;s fierce imagination and intelligence drive The Dismal Science. D&w88 online live casino;Orsi is a mesmerizing character. His wrecking-ball choices and the truth that there are no easy answers make him utterly human.”

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Winner of the 2016 Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award for a fiction writer in Washington State, and an Elizabeth George Fellowship, he received the 2010 recipient of Yaddo&w88 online live casino;s Wallace Residency for a Distinguished Writer, and he was the 2015 Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow at Bread Loaf.

Peter grew up in Washington, D.C., apart from three years in Sri Lanka during the early stages of the Sri Lankan civil war. In 1999, Peter earned a B.A. in International Relations, and worked as an adjunct fellow for a think tank. For most of that time, he lived in Ecuador and wrote about Ecuador’s economy. He now lives in Seattle, where he serves as the events curator at Hugo House, Seattle’s w88 online live casino center.

Education

• w88 online live casino, University of Washington