BIOGRAPHY
Peter Meinke (b. 1932). Born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a salesman, Meinke served in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1957, attended Hamilton College (B.A. 1955), the University of Michigan (M.A., 1961), and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota (1965). He taught English at a New Jersey high school, Hamline University, and Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College) in Florida, where he began directing the writing workshop in 1972.

His reviews, poems, and stories have appeared in periodicals such as the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and the New Republic. The latest of his three books in the Pitt Poetry Series is Nightwatch on the Chesapeake (1987). His collection of stories, The Piano Tuner, won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award. Also, he has been the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry.