Peter Selgin's book of stories, Drowning Lessons (Georgia), won the 2008 Flannery O'Connor Award. His novel, Life Goes to the Movies, was a finalist for the AWP and the James Jones awards and is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. He is also the author of a book on fiction writing, By Cunning & Craft (Writer's Digest, 2007), and edits Alimentum: The Literature of Food.