Peter Behrens is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer from Montreal. Behrens studied at Concordia University and McGill University before moving to the United States where he was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and held a Stegner Fellowship at Standford University. Behrens has had his work featured in several publications, including Best Canadian Stories in 1978 and 1979, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, and The Atlantic, and his published collections novels include The Law of Dreams (2006), The O’Briens (2011), Carry Me (2016), and short story collections Night Driving: Stories (1987), and Traveling Light (2013). Behrens has received widespread recognition for his work, including a Governor General’s Award for English fiction (2006), the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, a short listing for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Behrens is a member of several organization, including the Writers Guilds of America and Canada, and he has lectured at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, Television, and taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of Southern Maine, Colorado College, and Wichita State University. Behrens was recently a Fellow of the Radcliff Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Peter Behrens
Studios
Sorosis
Peter Behrens worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…