Peter Markus is the author of six books of fiction, among them the novel Bob, or Man on Boat, as well as the collections The Fish and the Not Fish, We Make Mud, and Good, Brother, among others. He is also the author of a book of non-fiction, Inside My Pencil, a memoir about the teaching that Markus has done for the past 22 years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit. He lives in Michigan and teaches fiction and poetry workshop both privately and as a Special Lecturer at Oakland University.