Like three centuries of his ancestors, Christian Peet was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut. He received a Bachelor’s Degree from Bennington College, a Master’s Degree from Goddard College, and has taught both Literature and Creative Writing at Brooklyn College and Hunter College, for the City University of New York. He is the founder of the independent literary publishing companies Tarpaulin Sky Press and GenPop Books, and is married to author Elena Georgiou, with whom he shares a home in Vermont.
Tarpaulin Sky and GenPop authors are winners and finalists for The Whiting Award, The National Endowment for the Arts, the The Poetry Society of America, PEN America, and Lambda Literary, and are glowingly reviewed in a wide variety of venues.
BuzzFeed News : “proves indie presses deserve your attention.” The Nation : “warped from one world to another.” Huffington Post : “simultaneously metaphysical and visceral … scary, sexual, and intellectually disarming.” VICE : “beautifully startling and fucked and funny and tender and sad and putrid and glitter-covered all at once.” NPR Books : “only becomes more surreal.” Publishers Weekly “Best Summer Reads” : “hallucinatory … trance-inducing.”
Christian’s own poetry and prose, circa 2000-2010, appears in various indie and university journals, anthologies, and fine-press limited editions in the U.S. and U.K, including The Nines (Palm Press), Pluto: Never Forget (Interbirth Books), and a collection of “postcards,” Big American Trip (Shearsman). Since 2010, Christian has been writing a true-crime memoir, which he intends to publish “when the time is right.”
In his 1830s home overlooking the town cemetery, Christian works by the light of an oil lamp in his barn. He spends his free time stacking firewood or tending fruit trees and wildflower gardens, conversing with incorporeal entities and sundry critters domestic and wild.
Christian does not use social media. He may be contacted via the form below, although his schedule does not always permit a response. Any editorial or media concerns regarding Tarpaulin Sky should be directed to the press website.
Old friends are his favorite friends: if you knew Christian before the dawn of virtual century and have since lost touch, you can bet that he will be thrilled to reconnect.
