Christian Peet
Christian Peet is the author of Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009) and two chapbook-installments of an ongoing cross-genre project, The Nines. “Book 1” of The Nines (Palm Press, 2006) is available through Small Press Distribution. “Book 2” is forthcoming from Interbirth Books.
Peet's work will be included in the anthology, A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years, and also appears in journals such as Action Yes, Bird Dog, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Fascicle, Octopus Magazine, Practice: New Writing + Art, and SleepingFish, among others.
Christian Peet is the publisher and founding editor of Tarpaulin Sky Press, publishing hybrid forms and innovative poetry and prose in trade paperback and hand-bound books as well as in literary journals in print and online. TSky Press authors include Jenny Boully, Danielle Dutton, Sandy Florian, Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Joyelle McSweeney, G.C. Waldrep, and Max Winter
Purposefully an adjunct (or so he'll say), Christian Peet taught Poetry I & II, Creative Writing, and Landmarks of Literature at Brooklyn College and at Hunter College, for the City University of New York (CUNY), until moving to Vermont, where he currently freelances as a web and book designer and teaches Creative Writing, Poetry, Women and Literature, and Intro to Literature at the Community College of Vermont.
Christian Peet received a BA from Bennington College, a MFA from Goddard College, and has driven across the country half a dozen times and camped in all but five states while living out of his car and assuming a variety of employee incarnations including sheet metal fabricator, goat milker, organic sprout grower, maintenance man, landscaper, and convenience store clerk.
