Pete Duval is author of the short-story collection Rear View, which won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize and the Connecticut Book Award. The recipient of two Connecticut artist grants and fellowships from the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Duval is associate professor of English at West Chester University. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ascent, the Massachusetts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Witness, Chelsea, Exquisite Corpse, and Appalachian Heritage, among other venues.