Who is Christian Peet? Why is he so great?

Christian Peet is the author of two forthcoming nonfiction books, Crimen Magiae and No Evidence, No Jury, No Justice: The True Story of Jeremy Barney. Peet is also the author of a cross-genre collection of “postcards,” Big American Trip, published by Shearsman Books, and two chapbooks of absurd lyric essays, Pluto: Never Forget, published by Interbirth Books, and The Nines, published by Palm Press. His work appears in magazines such as Action Yes and Denver Quarterly, and in the anthologies, A Best Of FENCE: The First Nine Years (Fence Books, edited by Rebecca Wolff, et al) and A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (Chain Links, edited by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young).

Peet is 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. Although known for their “experimental” nature, Tarpaulin Sky Press titles are, for some strange reason, widely reviewed, in places as varied as After Ellen, The Nation, HTML Giant, Publishers Weekly, Time Out New York, Library Journal, American Book Review, TriQuarterly, and Jacket. Among the press’s more than two dozen titles are the Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Poetry, Stars of the Night Commute, from Croatia-born Ana Božičević, and the Time Out New York pick, Attempts at a Life, by Danielle Dutton.

Peet taught Creative Writing and Poetry workshops as well as various Literature courses in New York City and Vermont, until moving to Italy, where he lives in a seaside villa somewhere between the late-15th and early-16th centuries.