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Called "one of the country's foremost thinkers on the art of writing" by the _Houston Chronicle_ , **Peter Turchi's** books include _Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer_ ; _Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie_ , in collaboration with the artist; a novel, _The Girls Next Door_ ; and a collection of stories, _Magician_. Turchi's short story "Night, Truck, Two Lights Burning," listed as one of 100 Notable Stories of 2002 by the editors of Best American Short Stories and one of 15 Recommended Stories by the jury for the O. Henry Prize Stories, has been published in Arabic and, in English, combined with images by Charles Ritchie, in a limited edition artist's book. He has also coedited, with Andrea Barrett, _A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft_ and _The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work_ ; and, with Charles Baxter, _Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life_. Turchi's stories have appeared in _Ploughshares, Story, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol_ , and the _Colorado Review_. He has received Washington College's Sophie Kerr Prize, an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, North Carolina's Sir Walter Raleigh Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 1993 to 2008 he directed the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. Turchi recently taught at Arizona State University, where he was director of the creative writing program, and he's currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston.