A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space

Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction. He is the author of two children’s books, three books on the craft of writing, two essay collections, and three novels, including the forthcoming A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space (Regal House Publishing, Fall 2024). Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, his memoir-in-essays, was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize. His memoir, The Inventors, won the 2017 Housatonic Book Award. His recent novel, Duplicity, won the 2021 Best Indie Book Award and the 2021 Indie Excellence Book Award. His full-length drama, A God in the House, based on Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his “suicide machine,” won the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Award and was most recently produced by the Town & Gown Players in Athens, GA. A visual artist as well as a writer, Selgin’s paintings and illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker, Forbes, Gourmet, and other publications, and his cover designs appear on many award-winning books. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College and State University, where he is art director and nonfiction editor of Arts & Letters, an international journal of poetry and prose.