Peter Wallace is the author of two novels and numerous short stories. He was Chair of the Theater Program at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and The New School in New York for many years. He directed theater in New York and all around the country. He has also taught and directed at a number of other universities and theater schools, such as Princeton, Yale, and Trinity Repertory Company. Through the Institute of Writing and Thinking at Bard College, he has taught writing practices in Myanmar, Turkey, and Russia, and has also been on the Language and Thinking faculty at Bard. He has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and Yaddo. He has written and sold screenplays, and written and produced plays. He received his MFA in Directing at Yale School of Drama. He has been a fisherman, a motorcycle bum, an interfaith minister, a sculptor, and a bodywork therapist. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest, writing and teaching.