Peter Conners is author of the memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009). His new book, White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen  Ginsberg, will be published by City Lights in November 2010. His other books include the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter and the novella Emily Ate the Wind.  His next poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees, is forthcoming from White Pine Press in spring 2011. He is also editor of PP/FF: An Anthology which was published by Starcherone Books in April 2006. His writing appears regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Beloit Fiction Journal and will be included in the Yale Anthology of Younger American Poets anthology forthcoming from Yale University Press. 

Peter Conners has also completed a pair of music-based novels, as well as the screenplay for his acclaimed memoir, Growing Up Dead. More information about the film adaptation of Growing Up Dead can be found at Growing Up Dead: The Movie. His nonfiction book projects are represented by Linda Roghaar of the Linda Roghaar Literary Agency. He works as Publisher of the award-winning non-profit literary publisher BOA Editions, Ltd.