Assistant Professor of English
Creative Writing
Clinton Crockett Peters is an assistant professor of creative writing at Berry College. He is the author of Pandora’s Garden (2018), a finalist for the ASLE Book Prize, and Mountain Madness (2021), both essay collections from the University of Georgia Press. His work appears in Best American Essays 2020 and has been noted four other times in The Best American series. He has been awarded literary prizes from The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Columbia Journal, and the Society for Professional Journalists. His writing also appears in Orion, The Southern Review, Utne Reader, The Threepenny Review, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Catapult, and elsewhere. He has an MFA from Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow, and a PhD from North Texas. In previous lives, he was an outdoor wilderness guide, an English teacher in Kosuge Village, Japan (population: 900), and a radio DJ.