Peter Meinke has published stories and poems in the "Atlantic", "Redbook", "Yankee", "The New Yorker", "New Republic", and "Virginia Quarterly Review". His stories have twice been included in the O'Henry Award volumes and once in Best American Short Stories. In 1975 he studied in Africa and in 1978-79 he was a Fulbright lecturer in Poland. He is director of the writing workshop at Eckerd College.