Peter Wortsman is the author of a book of short fiction, A Modern Way To Die, 1991; two stage plays, The Tattooed Man Tells All, 2000, and Burning Words, 2004; an artists’ book, it – t = i, produced in collaboration with his brother, artist Harold Wortsman; travel writing in The Best Travel Writing 2008 and 2009; and numerous translations from the German, including Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil, now in its third edition, and Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist, recently published by Archipelago Books. His work in multiple modes has appeared in many anthologies, including AmLit: Neue Literatur aus den USA, Berlin, 1992; The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal, 2000; 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, 2002, and The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry, 2008. A recipient of the 1985 Beard’s Fund Short Story Award, and the 2008 Gertje Potash-Suhr Prose Prize of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, he was selected as a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2010.