Peter WeltnerPeter Weltner is the author of five books of fiction, Beachside Entries/Specific Ghosts (Five Fingers Press,1989), Identity and Difference (The Crossing Press, 1990), In a Time of Combat for the Angel (Five Fingers Press, 1991), The Risk of His Music(Graywolf Press, 1997), and How the Body Prays (Graywolf Press, 1999), and of three poetry chapbooks, Laguna Beach: After Shelter (Barnwood Poetry, 2009), From a Lost Faust Book (Finishing Line Press, 2009), and From a Lost Gospel of Mark (2River, 2010). News from the World at My Birth: a History, poems, was published in October, 2010. His writing has also appeared in several national anthologies, including Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, 1993 and 1998, and in several dozen literary magazines and journals. He lives in San Francisco's outerlands, two blocks from the Pacific. (photo courtesy, Nathan Wirth) Read More Read Less