The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter Orner’s stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, McSweeney’s, Bomb, The Best American Short Stories, and The Pushcart Prize XXV. They are collected in his first book, Esther Stories, which received many honors, including the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Goldberg Prize from the Foundation of Jewish Culture, and was a finalist for a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Orner is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Northeastern University School of Law, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has lived in Namibia and currently teaches at San Francisco State University. The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo is his first novel.