Peter Behrens' short stories and essays have appeared in "The Atlantic Monthly," "Tin House," "Saturday Night," and "The National Post" and have been anthologized in "Best Canadian Stories" and "Best Canadian Essays," He is the author of a collection of short stories, "Night Driving" (Macmillan). Behrens was a Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and held a prestigious Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He was born in Montreal and lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and son.