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Peter Rock joined the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ faculty in 2001. He teaches the writing of prose, both fiction and non-fiction, with special interest in the intersection between the two, economical forms, the fantastic and invisible, animals, ghosts and linkages of every kind. His favorite book is most likely Yasunari Kawabata’s Palm-of-the-Hand Stories or Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He is also the author of the novels Passersthrough, The Night Swimmers, SPELLS, Klickitat, The Shelter Cycle, My Abandonment (adapted into Debra Granik’s film “Leave No Trace”), The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves and This Is the Place, as well as a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologized widely, and his books published in various countries and languages. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, as well as an Alex Award, Rock has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner and John Dos Passos Awards. His novel Makeshift, concerning three shipwreck-plundering sisters who believe they’re the last humans on earth, will be published in 2026.