Peter Selgin
Encyclopedia
Peter Selgin is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is currently the Viebranz Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at St. Lawrence University
in Canton, New York
.
immigrants, Peter Selgin was born in Bethesda, Maryland
, grew up in Bethel, Connecticut
, and attended Bethel High School
. From an early age, he showed considerable talent in visual art and theater, going on to attend the Pratt Institute
in Brooklyn
, New York
, where he studied film, theater and visual art, before turning to writing. After stints in community theater, he later attended Bard College
, and earned his Bachelor of Arts
in English from Western Connecticut State University
. For years, between 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 Essay "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man."
Since earning his Master of Fine Arts
degree from the New School University
in New York City
in 2005, he has taught creative writing at Georgia College & State University
in Milledgeville, GA, Montclair State University
in NJ
, and New York University
, among other universitites 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 is currently the Viebranz Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at St. Lawrence University
in Canton, New York
.
Selgin is also the editor of Alimentum: The Literature of Food, a literary journal
devoted exclusively to food themed poetry
, prose
, and creative nonfiction
.
His brother, George Selgin
is a professor of economics at the University of Georgia
. His father, Paul Selgin, was an inventor
whose numerous patent
s include many for optical measuring devices for use in manufacturing. His half-sister, Clare Selgin Wolfowitz
, is an editor and expert in Indonesian anthropology.
Selgin’s debut short story
collection, Drowning Lessons, won the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
and was published in 2008 by the University of Georgia Press
. (4) His first novel, Life Goes to the Movies was a finalist for both the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel and was published in 2009 by Dzanc Books. His latest novel, "The Water Master," won the 2011 William Faulkner-William Wisdom prize for best Novel, selected by Random House Editor Will Murphy.
Non-Fiction:
Selgin is also the author of two non-fiction
books on the craft of fiction
writing, By Cunning & Craft, and 179 Ways to Save a Novel, both published by Writer's Digest Books. His first book of essays, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, was published by the University of Iowa Press
/ Sightline Books in October 2011.
Plays:
As a playwright
, Selgin has been a three-time finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Center
National Playwrights Conference Award. His stage drama, A God in the House, based on Dr. Jack Kevorkian
and his “suicide machine,” was presented there in 1991, and subsequently optioned for off-Broadway. A God in the House also won the Mill Mountain Theatre
New Plays Competition (1990). Night Blooming Serious, another full-length drama, won the Charlotte Repertory New Plays Festival Competition (1993). (5)
Visual Art:
Selgin's illustrations and paintings have been featured in The New Yorker
, Gourmet
, Outside
, Fine Gardening
, San Francisco
, Boston
, Forbes
, U.S. Art, American Illustration, Time-Out New York, the Chicago Tribune
, and The Wall Street Journal
, as well as NPR's Weekend Edition
, Fox
's Good Day New York
, and CNBC
's Great Stuff. As a commercial artist, he storyboard
ed several motion picture
scenes, including the gargoyle special effect
s sequences in Tales from the Darkside
.
Children's Books:
Selgin has also written and illustrated several picture books for children, including, S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic (2)
St. Lawrence University
St. Lawrence University is a four-year liberal arts college located in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female....
in Canton, New York
Canton (town), New York
Canton is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, USA. The population was 10,334 at the 2000 census. The town contains two villages: one also named Canton, the other named Rensselaer Falls. Canton is located near the center of the county. The town is named after Canton in China. Canton is the...
.
Biography
A son of Italian AmericanItalian American
An Italian American , is an American of Italian ancestry. The designation may also refer to someone possessing Italian and American dual citizenship...
immigrants, Peter Selgin was born in Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House , which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda...
, grew up in Bethel, Connecticut
Bethel, Connecticut
Bethel is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, about sixty miles from New York City. Its population was 18,584 at the 2010 census. The town center is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place...
, and attended Bethel High School
Bethel High School (Connecticut)
Bethel High School is a public secondary school located in the town of Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut, approximately 60 miles north of New York City. The school serves the town of Bethel.- History :...
. From an early age, he showed considerable talent in visual art and theater, going on to attend the Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...
in Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, New York
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, where he studied film, theater and visual art, before turning to writing. After stints in community theater, he later attended Bard College
Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...
, and earned his Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in English from Western Connecticut State University
Western Connecticut State University
Western Connecticut State University is a public university in Danbury, Connecticut. Founded in 1903, WestConn has an arts and sciences curriculum, a business school, and several professional programs including elementary and secondary education, nursing, music performance, and social work...
. For years, between writing plays and stories, he worked as a visual artist—including as a caricaturist
Caricature
A caricature is a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.Caricatures can be...
, illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
, and painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
. 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 Essay "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man."
Since earning his Master of Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
degree from the New School University
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
in 2005, he has taught creative writing at Georgia College & State University
Georgia College & State University
Georgia College & State University is a public liberal arts university in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States, with approximately 7,000 students...
in Milledgeville, GA, Montclair State University
Montclair State University
Montclair State University is a public research university located in the Upper Montclair section of Montclair, the Great Notch area of Little Falls, and Clifton, New Jersey. As of October 2009, there were 18,171 total enrolled students: 14,139 undergraduate students and 4,032 graduate students...
in NJ
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, and New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, among other universitites and colleges. He has also taught creative writing at various community organizations including the Gotham Writers' Workshop
Gotham Writers' Workshop
Gotham Writers' Workshop is the U.S.'s largest adult-education writing school. It was founded in New York City in 1993 by writers Jeff Fligelman and David Grae and currently offers courses both in New York and on-line...
, 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
Vitorchiano
Vitorchiano is a comune in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region Latium, located about 70 km northwest of Rome and about 7 km northeast of Viterbo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,690 and an area of 29.8 km².Vitorchiano borders the following municipalities:...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
.
Selgin is currently the Viebranz Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at St. Lawrence University
St. Lawrence University
St. Lawrence University is a four-year liberal arts college located in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female....
in Canton, New York
Canton (town), New York
Canton is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, USA. The population was 10,334 at the 2000 census. The town contains two villages: one also named Canton, the other named Rensselaer Falls. Canton is located near the center of the county. The town is named after Canton in China. Canton is the...
.
Selgin is also the editor of Alimentum: The Literature of Food, a literary journal
Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...
devoted exclusively to food themed poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
, prose
Prose
Prose is the most typical form of written language, applying ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure...
, and creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service...
.
His brother, George Selgin
George Selgin
George A. Selgin is a professor of economics in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC, and an associate editor of Econ Journal Watch...
is a professor of economics at the University of Georgia
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
. His father, Paul Selgin, was an inventor
Invention
An invention is a novel composition, device, or process. An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived, in which case it may be a radical breakthrough. In addition, there is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social...
whose numerous patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
s include many for optical measuring devices for use in manufacturing. His half-sister, Clare Selgin Wolfowitz
Clare Selgin Wolfowitz
Clare Selgin Wolfowitz is an expert on Indonesian anthropology. She currently works at the at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Governance Institutions Group, primarily on its projects in Indonesia and with the Programs and Policy Coordination office of USAID.In 1968, she married...
, is an editor and expert in Indonesian anthropology.
Works
Fiction:Selgin’s debut short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
collection, Drowning Lessons, won the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor....
and was published in 2008 by the University of Georgia Press
University of Georgia Press
The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is a publishing house and is a member of the Association of American University Presses.Founded in 1938, the UGA Press is a division of the University of Georgia and is located on the campus in Athens, Georgia, USA...
. (4) His first novel, Life Goes to the Movies was a finalist for both the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel and was published in 2009 by Dzanc Books. His latest novel, "The Water Master," won the 2011 William Faulkner-William Wisdom prize for best Novel, selected by Random House Editor Will Murphy.
Non-Fiction:
Selgin is also the author of two non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
books on the craft of fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
writing, By Cunning & Craft, and 179 Ways to Save a Novel, both published by Writer's Digest Books. His first book of essays, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, was published by the University of Iowa Press
University of Iowa Press
The University of Iowa Press is a university press that is part of the University of Iowa.Established in 1969, the University of Iowa Press publishes books that fill the needs of scholars and students throughout the world, poetry and short fiction, and works of creative nonfiction...
/ Sightline Books in October 2011.
Plays:
As a playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, Selgin has been a three-time finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Center
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
The Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut is a 501 not-for-profit theater company founded in 1964 by George C. White. The O'Neill is the recipient of the . The O'Neill is home to the National Theater Institute , and several major theater conferences including the...
National Playwrights Conference Award. His stage drama, A God in the House, based on Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Jack Kevorkian
Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian , commonly known as "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, composer and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he said he assisted at least 130 patients to...
and his “suicide machine,” was presented there in 1991, and subsequently optioned for off-Broadway. A God in the House also won the Mill Mountain Theatre
Mill Mountain Theatre
Mill Mountain Theatre has served for more than 40 years as a nationally recognized professional, regional performing arts theatre committed to producing the highest quality theatre in Southwest Virginia, actively promoting and developing new theatre works, strengthening the artistic influence in...
New Plays Competition (1990). Night Blooming Serious, another full-length drama, won the Charlotte Repertory New Plays Festival Competition (1993). (5)
Visual Art:
Selgin's illustrations and paintings have been featured in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Gourmet
Gourmet (magazine)
Gourmet magazine was a monthly publication of Condé Nast and the first U.S. magazine devoted to food and wine. Founded by Earle R. MacAusland and first published in 1941, Gourmet also covered "good living" on a wider scale....
, Outside
Outside (magazine)
Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue debuted in September 1977 with its mission statement declaring that the publication was "dedicated to covering the people, sports and activities, politics, art, literature, and hardware of the outdoors..."Its founders were...
, Fine Gardening
Fine Gardening (magazine)
Fine Gardening is a magazine for gardening enthusiasts of all skill levels covering the basics of garden design with advice from horticulture experts and landscape professionals. The focus is more on ornamental plants and home landscaping rather than edible gardens...
, San Francisco
San Francisco (magazine)
San Francisco is an American monthly magazine devoted to San Francisco Bay Area culture, including arts, food, and entertainment. It is published monthly by publications.-History:...
, Boston
Boston magazine
Boston is a monthly magazine concerning life in the Greater Boston area and has been in publication for more than 40 years.-About the magazine:The magazine is self-described as:...
, Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
, U.S. Art, American Illustration, Time-Out New York, the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
, and The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, as well as NPR's Weekend Edition
Weekend Edition
Weekend Edition is the name given to a set of American radio news magazines produced and distributed by National Public Radio . It is the weekend counterpart to Morning Edition. It consists of Weekend Edition Saturday and Weekend Edition Sunday , each of which airs for two hours, from 8 a.m. to 10...
, Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
's Good Day New York
Good Day New York
Good Day New York is a weekday morning news and entertainment feature show which airs on WNYW, the New York City flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company...
, and CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
's Great Stuff. As a commercial artist, he storyboard
Storyboard
Storyboards are graphic organizers in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence....
ed several motion picture
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
scenes, including the gargoyle special effect
Special effect
The illusions used in the film, television, theatre, or entertainment industries to simulate the imagined events in a story are traditionally called special effects ....
s sequences in Tales from the Darkside
Tales from the Darkside
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series produced by George A. Romero; it originally aired from 1983 to 1988. Similar to Amazing Stories, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, and Tales From The Crypt, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot...
.
Children's Books:
Selgin has also written and illustrated several picture books for children, including, S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic (2)
Books
- S. S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic (1999), Simon & SchusterSimon & SchusterSimon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
, ISBN 068982467X - By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers (2007), Writer's Digest BooksWriter's DigestWriter's Digest is an American magazine devoted to both beginning and established writers, offering interviews, market listings, calls for manuscripts, and how-to articles....
, ISBN 1582974918 - Drowning Lessons (2008), University of Georgia PressUniversity of Georgia PressThe University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is a publishing house and is a member of the Association of American University Presses.Founded in 1938, the UGA Press is a division of the University of Georgia and is located on the campus in Athens, Georgia, USA...
, ISBN 0820332100 - Life Goes to the Movies (2009), Dzanc Books, ISBN 0979312388
- 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers (2010) Writer's Digest BooksWriter's DigestWriter's Digest is an American magazine devoted to both beginning and established writers, offering interviews, market listings, calls for manuscripts, and how-to articles....
, ISBN 1582976074 - Confessions of a Left-Handed Man (2011), University of Iowa PressUniversity of Iowa PressThe University of Iowa Press is a university press that is part of the University of Iowa.Established in 1969, the University of Iowa Press publishes books that fill the needs of scholars and students throughout the world, poetry and short fiction, and works of creative nonfiction...
/ Sightline Books
Awards
- “Alone: Two Types of Solitude”, Best American Notable Essay, 2011
- “Titanic Obsession”, Second Prize, The Missouri ReviewThe Missouri ReviewThe Missouri Review is a literary magazine. Founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri, it publishes fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, The Missouri Review receives 12,000 manuscripts each year and is known for printing previously unpublished...
Editor's Prize, 2011 - Finalist, ForeWord MagazineForeWord (magazine)ForeWord is a trade journal published six times yearly with the tagline, “Reviews of Good Books Independently Published.” The magazine is distributed primarily to librarians and booksellers to familiarize them with upcoming books from small, independent, and university presses, as well as...
Book of the Year, Life Goes to the Movies, 2010 - “Dead to Rights: Confessions of a Caricaturist”, Best American Notable Essay, 2009
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship, 2009, 2008
- “A Pre-Victorian Bathtub”, Best American Notable Essay, 2008
- Restaurant, Best American Notable Essay, 2007
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short FictionFlannery O'Connor Award for Short FictionThe Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor....
, Drowning Lessons, 2007 - Winner, Stage 3 Theatre New Play Festival, A God in the House, 2007
- Bronx Arts Council Fellowship, 2007
- Second Place, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel, Life Goes to the Movies, 2007
- “Confessions of a Left-Handed Man”, Best American Essay, 2006
- Glimmer TrainGlimmer TrainGlimmer Train is an American literary journal founded in 1990 in Portland, Oregon. It is published quarterly.-Past contributors:* Brad Barkley* Charles Baxter* Ron Carlson* Greg Downs* Peter Selgin* Andre Dubus III* Aaron Gwyn* Noy Holland...
Very Short Fiction Award, Man in the White Car, 2001 - Blue Mountain Center, Residency Fellowship, 1999
- Mill Mountain Theatre New Plays Award, A God in the House, 1992
- National Playwright’s Conference Award, A God in the House, 1991
- Charlotte Repertory New Plays Award, Night Blooming Serious, 1991
External links
- Peter Selgin’s official Website
- Fiction Writers Review interview
- Interview with Ben Cheever “On Writing” (video)
- Diagram Magazine article
- "Dead to Rights: Confessions of a Caricaturist" essay
- Pif Magazine Interview
- Brooklyn Rail Interview
- Writer’s Digest Interview
- “Confessions of a Left-Handed Man” essay
- Alimentum: The Literature of Food Website
- http://www.dzancbooks.org/life-goes-to-the-movies/
- http://www.stlawu.edu/academics/programs/english/directory/1646
- Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, Gale Cengage Publishing, ISBN 1414439563
- http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/the-truth-about-fiction-an-interview-with-peter-selgin
- http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/drowning_lessons
- http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/selgin-peter.html
- http://cs.writermag.com/WRTCS/blogs/staff_blog/archive/2010/09/29/new-column-set-to-debut.aspx