Peter Orner

Peter Orner is the author of two novels, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love (2011), as well as a story collection, Esther Stories. He is also the editor of two nonfiction works, Underground America and Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. Born in Chicago, Orner now lives in San Francisco.

Photograph by Traci Griffin.