ABOUT

Peter Battle Biles is a fiction writer and creative writing professor from Oklahoma. He is the author of several novels and short story collections, including What the Tree Saw, Hillbilly Hymn, Keep, Through the Eye of Old Man Kyle, and Last November. His science fiction thriller, Stylus Mang, and his fantasy novella, The Antarctic Dream, are forthcoming in 2027.

Collectively, he has published some 500 short stories, essays, reviews, blogs, and pieces of reportage, which have appeared in Plough Quarterly, The Dispatch, RealClearBooks, Dappled Things, Inkwell, Midsummer Dream House, Mind Matters, Literally Stories, Salvo, Science and Culture Today, and many others. His fiction and nonfiction both tend to explore the possibilities of redemption and enchantment in a broken world.

Peter is currently a PhD candidate in English at Oklahoma State University and, as of August 2026, serves as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at Oklahoma Baptist University.