Pete Pazmino is a graduate of the MA in Writing (fiction) program at Johns Hopkins University. He also attended the 2008 writer’s conference at Sewanee. His work has previously been published in Monkeybicycle, JMWW, Menda City Review, A Cappella Zoo, You Must Be This Tall to Ride, and elsewhere, and he was a finalist in both the Iowa Review’s 2006 fiction competition and the Black Warrior Review’s 2007 fiction competition. He also received editor nominations for the storySouth Million Writers Award in both 2009 and 2010.
A former high school and middle school English teacher who spent a year in Riga, Latvia as a participant in the Fulbright Program, Pete has edited the Journal of the Virginia Writing Project for over a decade and has spoken to audiences at the local, national, and international level on topics that include writing, teaching, revision, publication, and more. To contact Pete about manuscript consultation or speaking engagements, use the “contact” tab or email him directly: pete@petepazmino.com.