Peter Zaragoza Mayshle
Lecturer, Writing & Communication
Contact
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
- Posner Hall 276
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
Peter Zaragoza Mayshle received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his writing has been supported by a residency at Yaddo. His short stories have appeared in publications across the United States, the Philippines, Canada, and the U.K., including, most recently, in Flash Fiction International, published by W. W. Norton. A two-time finalist for the David T.K. Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia, he was born and raised in Manila, and now lives in Pittsburgh. He is a finalist for Farrar, Straus & Giroux's inaugural Writer's Fellowship 2022, for a novel-in-progress set in the first bloody six months of the Duterte presidency.Research
Rhetorics of space, public memory, ethnography, fiction writingPublications
https://fsgfellowship.com/announcement/;
https://arete.ateneo.edu/podcasts/why-the-boy-was-scooped-out-of-the-sewer
https://everydayfiction.com/little-bombings-by-peter-zaragoza-mayshle/