Peter Trachtenberg (born 1953) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.
Life
He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. and a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.
His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, BOMB, TriQuarterly, O, The New York Times Travel Magazine, and A Public Space.
In 2001, he married writer Mary Gaitskill. They divorced in 2010.
Awards
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
2007 Whiting Award
1984 Nelson Algren Award
Works
Books
Anthologies
Stories and articles
"You're Fired: Cloudburst", The New Yorker, April 21, 2003. "The Chattering Masses", The New Yorker, May 15, 2005. "Why Obama?", Largehearted Boy, October 2, 2008 "Dan P. Lee and Travis the killer chimp", Nieman Storyboard, December 4, 2012 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", Kenyon Review Online, Summer 2013 "Madame Bovary: Before Country Was Cool", Modern Farmer, October 9, 2014 "Inside the Tiger Factory", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2015