Peter Grandbois

• Name — Peter Grandbois • Born — 3 April 1964 • Birthplace — Minneapolis, MN • Nationality — American • Website — www.petergrandbois.com • Medal Templates — Men's foil Country Veteran World Championships

Peter Grandbois received a B.A. from the University of Colorado—Boulder (1986, cum laude), an M.A. from the University of Colorado—Boulder (1991), an M.F.A. from Bennington College (2003), and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver (2006). He was an assistant professor at Sacramento State University for four years before taking a position at Denison University in 2010 where he is currently a professor of creative writing and contemporary literature. He is the Poetry Editor for Boulevard magazine. He is also the head coach of the Denison University Men's and Women's Fencing Teams. They compete in the Central Collegiate Fencing Conference.

Known for his work in all four genres, Grandbois is the author of five poetry collections, three novels, four novella collections or "double monster features," two memoirs, two collections of short stories, and several plays produced in New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Columbus. His poems, short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including: Boulevard, The Denver Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The Normal School, North Dakota Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner.

• This House That (Brighthorse Books, 2017) • The Three-Legged World—published as Triptych with books by the poets James McCorkle and Robert Miltner (Etruscan Press, 2020) • everything has become birds (Brighthorse Books, 2021) • Last Night I Aged a Hundred Years (Ashland Poetry Press, 2021) • Story of a Pilgrim (Tiger Bark Press, 2026)

• The Gravedigger (Chronicle books, 2006) • Nahoonkara (Etruscan Press, 2011) • half-burnt (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019)

• The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) • Kissing the Lobster (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018)

• Mutual Consent—cowritten with Nancy Bell (California Repertory Theatre, Long Beach, CA, 2016 • The Woman Who Was Me (New York, United Solo Theatre Festival, 2014; United Solo Theatre Festival, 2015, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2016, and Theatre Lab, New York: 2017) • "Present Tense"—a One Act—cowritten with Nancy Bell (St. Louis Actor's Studio, Neil Labute Festival, 2013; The Best of the Neil Labute New Theatre Festival, 59E59 Theatre in New York, 2016) • "The Call"—a One Act—cowritten with Nancy Bell (MadLab: Columbus, OH 2013;

• San Juan: Memoir of a City, by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia (University of Wisconsin, 2007)

• Wait Your Turn and The Stability of Large Systems (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2014) • The Glob Who Girdled Granville and The Secret Lives of Actors (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2014) • The Girl on the Swing and At Night in Crumbling Voices (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2015) • Cat People and Dream Memories of the Fifty Foot Woman (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)

• Domestic Disturbances (1=Subito Press, 2013) • Domestic Bestiary (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)