Paper Crown (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781597090070)

Jim Peterson is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. Early books include "The Man Who Grew Silent" (Bench Press 1989), and "An Afternoon With K" (Holocene 1996). His Red Hen Press books are" The Owning Stone" (2000, winner of The Benjamin Saltman Award), " Paper Crown" (2005), and "The Bob and Weave" (2006). His poems have appeared in such journals as "Poetry," "Georgia Review," and"Prairie Schooner," among others. His poetry was awarded a Poetry Fellowship from the Virginia Commission on the Arts in 2002-03. A number of his plays have been produced in regional and college theatres around the country. He is writer-in-residence and coordinator of creative writing at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia where he lives with his wife, Harriet, and their beloved Welsh Corgi, Dylan Thomas."