Peter Mountford

Peter Mountford

born July 17, 1976
gender male
website http://www.petermountford.com
genre Literature & Fiction, Politics, Travel

about this author

After graduating from Pitzer College with a degree in international relations, Peter Mountford lived in Ecuador where he worked for a non-profit think tank, which briefly operated a hedge fund -- inspiration for his debut novel, A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism.

An avid traveler, Mountford has lived in Washington, D.C., New York, and Los Angeles, as well as Scotland, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, and Southern Mexico. His fiction has won numerous awards, grants and fellowships, and has recently appeared in Best New American Voices 2008, Boston Review, Phoebe, and Conjunctions.

He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and young daughter.

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