Peter Selgin (; born 1957) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is Associate Professor of English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Biography The son of Italian immigrants, Peter Selgin was born in Bethesda, Maryland, grew up in Bethel, Connecticut, and attended Bethel High School. Following high school, he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where he studied film, theater and visual art. He later attended Bard College, and earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from Western Connecticut State University. In addition to writing plays and stories, he worked as a visual artist—including as a caricaturist, illustrator, and painter. Nerve damage to his hand from a dog attack in 1981 temporarily sidelined his career. Selgin's injury and its aftermath are the subject of The Best American Essays "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man." Selgin earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the New School University in New York City in 2005. , he is an Associate Professor in the MFA program at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. He previously taught creative writing at Antioch College in Los Angeles, Montclair State University in New Jersey, and New York University, among other universities and colleges. He has also taught creative writing at various community organizations, including the Gotham Writers' Workshop, The Center for Fiction (formerly, the Mercantile Library for Fiction), and the Bronx Writers' Center, among others. For several summers, he has organized and led a week-long creative writing workshop in Vitorchiano, Italy. Selgin was the Viebranz Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Selgin is also the creative non-fiction editor of Arts & Letters, a national literary journal published by the MFA Creative Writing program at Georgia College & State University. His twin brother, George Selgin is Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary & Financial Alternatives. His half-sister, Clare Selgin Wolfowitz, is an editor and expert in Indonesian anthropology. Works Fiction Selgin's debut short story collection, Drowning Lessons (2008), won the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His first novel, Life Goes to the Movies (2009) was a finalist for both the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel. His second novel, "The Water Master," won the 2011 William Faulkner-William Wisdom prize for best novel. His third novel, Duplicity (2020),