About Peter Orner:
Peter Orner is an American writer, and the author of two novels, Love and Shame and Love (2011), a New York Times Editor's Choice Book, and California Book Award winner and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (2006), a novel set in Namibia where Orner worked in the 1990s, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His also the author of Esther Stories (2001), winner of the Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction, and finalist for the Pen Hemingway Prize and the Young Lion’s Award from the New York Public Library. Of Esther Stories, the New York Times wrote, “Orner doesn’t just give bring his characters to life, he gives them souls.”