Clinton Crockett Peters

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Clinton Crockett Peters is the author of Pandora’s Garden: Kudzu, Cockroaches, and Other Misfits of Ecology, forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. He has been awarded literary prizes from Shenandoah, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Columbia Journal, and the Society for Professional Journalists. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow, and is pursuing a PhD in English/creative writing at the University of North Texas. His work also appears in Orion, Southern Review, Fourth Genre, The Rumpus, Hotel Amerika, and the Southwest Review

Stories

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Live From Kosuge Village: Scenes From a Trance Concert

“There was a trance concert in the Japanese village of nine hundred people, and I didn’t know about it.”

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Evolving the Monster: A History of Godzilla

“What bright flame has drawn our imaginations toward a creature that destroys lives on the other side of the sea?”