Peter Mountford
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The peripatetic Mountford grew up in Washington, DC, and has also lived in Ecuador and Sri Lanka; he now lives in Seattle. While in Ecuador, he spent two years as a token liberal in a think tank. His short fiction has recently appeared in Best New American Voices 2008, Conjunctions, Michigan Quarterly Review, Phoebe, The Normal School, and Boston Review. A two-time fellow of Yaddo, he won 2010 grants from the city of Seattle and the Elizabeth George Foundation. His first novel, A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism, will be published in April, 2011, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
