Pete Pazmino is a graduate of the MA in Writing (fiction) program at Johns Hopkins University, where he was named Outstanding Graduate by the fiction faculty. He attended the 2011 Sirenland Writer’s Conference in Positano, Italy, and also attended the 2008 writer’s conference at Sewanee. His work has previously been published in Brink Magazine, Monkeybicycle, JMWW, The Meadowland Review, A Cappella Zoo, and elsewhere. He was the recipient of the Northern Virginia Writing Project’s 2010 Mark Farrington Personal Writing Award, and was a finalist in both the Iowa Review’s 2006 fiction competition and the Black Warrior Review’s 2007 fiction competition. He 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, use the “Contact” tab or send an email to: petepazmino (at) gmail.com.