About

Peter first fell into fiction penning stories to amuse his grammar-school classmates, which helped him overcome his shyness, but resulted in very few completed homework assignments.

This habit led him to create a series of stories in the fifth grade with titles bearing the name of his school followed by the word “massacre”. These hand-scrawled murder mysteries turned out to be a bona-fide hit, proving particularly popular among the students who were bumped off in the grisly, typo-riddled tales. Its success was regrettably short-lived, ending abruptly when the author was caught circulating his latest opus during class, at which point it was promptly confiscated. The story was eventually returned to him on the condition that he no longer bring his writing to school. The author would like to express his sincere gratitude to this teacher for not informing the guidance counselor, dean, vice principal, principal, or superintendent of the school, thereby sparing said author from an unpleasant fate involving padded rooms and uncomfortable coats.

The fellow pictured to the right is an avid fan of horror movies, especially those with a sense of humor, food served from carts and roadside shacks, and the songs of The Ramones, The Replacements, and other bands of like-minded misfits who found a way to connect with the world through their music and their words.

He was raised and currently resides in the Chicagoland suburbs with his wife and cats and his writing has appeared in various online and print publications.

He recently released his second fiction collection Hollow Bodies and Other Stories the followup to his debut collection Carbon Copy and Other Stories.