Bio

Christian Peet is the author of Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009) and the first installment of an ongoing project, The Nines, which appears as chapbook from Palm Press (2006) and is available from Small Press Distribution. His work is forthcoming in the anthology, A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years, and can be found in journals such as Bird Dog, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Fascicle, Fence, Octopus Magazine, Pom2, Practice: New Writing + Art, and SleepingFish.

Peet is also 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.

An adjunct lecturer by choice (or so he says), he 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 teaches Creative Writing, Poetry, Women and Literature, and Intro to Literature at the Community College of Vermont, in addition to running Tarpaulin Sky Press and freelancing as a web and book designer.

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.