{"id":280,"date":"2017-10-13T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-english\/facultystaff\/peterbognanni\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:33:18","slug":"peterbognanni","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/facultystaff\/peterbognanni\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Bognanni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bognanni is a graduate of the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop and the author of three novels, one for adults and two for young adults. His first novel,\u00a0<em>The House of\u00a0Tomorrow\u00a0<\/em>(Putnam 2010) won the L.A. Times Book<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Award for First Fiction and was adapted into a feature film starring Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, and Asa Butterfield. The film played in 19 cities and in film festivals all over the world. His second novel,\u00a0<i>Things I&#8217;m Seeing Without You<\/i>\u00a0(Dial 2017) was published in four countries and is currently in development for television. His most recent book is\u00a0<i>This Book is Not Yet Rated,\u00a0<\/i>published by Dial in 2019. Peter was the winner of the 2013 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize, which sent him to Rome on a writing fellowship for the year. He is also an occasional screenwriter and was awarded a Film Independent Screenwriting Fellowship in 2013. Peter has published short stories and essays in\u00a0<i>LitHub<\/i>,\u00a0<i>McSweeny&#8217;s Internet Tendency<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>, and numerous literary journals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Study<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fiction writing (especially contemporary)<\/li>\n<li>Creative writing<\/li>\n<li>Screenwriting and film studies<\/li>\n<li>Humor writing<\/li>\n<li>The contemporary novel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fall 2025 Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ENGL 150-02 Introduction to Creative Writing<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 280-01 Crafts of Writing: Fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Spring 2026 &#8211; On Sabbatical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards and Honors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner: American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, 2013<\/li>\n<li>Winner: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction,\u00a0<em>Los Angeles<\/em>\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0Book Awards, 2010<\/li>\n<li>Winner: The Emerging Author Award, Iowa Author Awards, 2010<\/li>\n<li>Winner: The Alex Award, American Library Association, 2010<\/li>\n<li>Finalist: Novel &amp; Short Story Award, Minnesota Book Awards, 2010<\/li>\n<li>Finalist, Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, 2010<\/li>\n<li>Semi-Finalist: Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award, 2010<\/li>\n<li>Selection, IndieBound Next Award, 2009<\/li>\n<li>Nominee, Pushcart Prize for \u201cThe Pad Man Chronicles,\u201d 2008<\/li>\n<li>Selection, 100 Distinguished Stories chosen by Stephen King for\u00a0<em>Best American Short Stories<\/em>, 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BA: Macalester College<\/p>\n<p>MFA: University of Iowa Writer&#8217;s Workshop<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250,"template":"","class_list":["post-280","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/280\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}