PETER HO DAVIES
Peter Ho Davies was born in 1966 to Welsh and Chinese parents. He has
degrees in Physics and English, and was awarded an MA in Creative
Writing from Boston University. He has worked in Malaysia, Singapore,
and the USA, and was also, for a time, UK business manager for /Varsity/.
His work has appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers, and his
short fiction is widely anthologized, including selections for /Prize
Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1998/ and /Best American Short Stories
1995, 1996 and 2001/. His own first published collection of short
stories was /The Ugliest House in the World/ (1998), which contains
tales set in Malaysia, South Africa and Patagonia. This collection won
the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the /Mail on Sunday//John
Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second collection, /Equal Love/, was published
in 2000.
Peter Ho Davies lives in the United States and directs the MFA Programme
in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. He is a recipient of
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown. In 2003, he was named by /Granta/ magazine
as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'.
His first novel, /The Welsh Girl/, set in a Welsh village during the
second world war, was published in 2007.
Peter Ho Davies was born in 1966 to Welsh and Chinese parents. He has
degrees in Physics and English, and was awarded an MA in Creative
Writing from Boston University. He has worked in Malaysia, Singapore,
and the USA, and was also, for a time, UK business manager for /Varsity/.
His work has appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers, and his
short fiction is widely anthologized, including selections for /Prize
Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1998/ and /Best American Short Stories
1995, 1996 and 2001/. His own first published collection of short
stories was /The Ugliest House in the World/ (1998), which contains
tales set in Malaysia, South Africa and Patagonia. This collection won
the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the /Mail on Sunday//John
Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second collection, /Equal Love/, was published
in 2000.
Peter Ho Davies lives in the United States and directs the MFA Programme
in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. He is a recipient of
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown. In 2003, he was named by /Granta/ magazine
as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'.
His first novel, /The Welsh Girl/, set in a Welsh village during the
second world war, was published in 2007.