BIO

Christian Peet is the author of a cross-genre collection of "postcards," Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009), as well as two chapbook-installments of his ongoing project, The Nines— Pluto: Never Forget, which is forthcoming from Interbirth Books, and The Nines (Book 1), which is published by Palm Press. His work appears in magazines such as Action Yes and Denver Quarterly, and in the anthology, A Best Of FENCE: The First Nine Years.

He is also the publisher and founding editor of Tarpaulin Sky Press, disseminating hybrid / trans-genre texts and innovative poetry and prose through the publication of trade paperbacks, hand-bound books, and a literary magazine that appears online and in print.

An adjunct lecturer by choice (or so he says), he taught Creative Writing and Poetry workshops as well as various Literature courses at Hunter College and at Brooklyn College, for the City University of New York (CUNY), until moving to Vermont, where he teaches at a few of the southern branches of the Community College in addition to running Tarpaulin Sky Press and freelancing as a web designer and book designer. Other days he pedals a rickshaw or "does some writing" in his magic cottage in the woods. He received a BA from Bennington College, a MFA from Goddard College, and has driven across the country half a dozen times or so (not in a rickshaw), living or camping in all but five states and assuming a variety of professional incarnations including sheet metal fabricator, goat milker, organic sprout grower, maintenance man, landscaper, and convenience store clerk.