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Peter Orner is an American writer of fiction. He is the author of a novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (2006) and the short story collection Esther Stories (2001). His short fiction has been published in the Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review, as well as the Pushcart Prize Anthology, New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond and The Best American Short Stories 2001. His short story "The Raft" is being made into a short film starring Ed Asner.

Orner also edited "Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives," a collection of true stories about undocumented workers in America, which was published by McSweeney's in April 2008.

A resident of San Francisco, he is on the faculty of the graduate writing program at San Francisco State University.

Orner was born in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990 and later collected a law degree from Northeastern University and an MFA from the famed Iowa Writer's Workshop. His older brother is Eric Orner, the creator of the comic The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green.

Orner has also been a counselor, trip leader, and village director at Camp Nebagamon, an overnight camp in Northern Wisconsin.

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