Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens’ second novel The O'Briens is being published in July 2011 by House of Anansi Press in Canada, and January 2012 by Pantheon Books in the United States. Behrens’ first novel The Law of Dreams won the Governor-General’s Award, Canada’s most prestigious book prize, and has been published in nine languages. His collection of short stories, Night Driving was published in 1987. Stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Brick, Best Canadian Stories, Best Canadian Essays, and many anthologies. Behrens is a native of Montreal and was educated at Lower Canada College, Concordia University, and McGill. He has held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University, and was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He lives in Maine and Texas.
