Peter Stenson is an MFA candidate at Colorado State University. His stories and essays have been published in The Sun, Confrontation, Post Road, Fugue, Passages North, The Pinch, Blue Mesa Review, Upstreet, and elsewhere.
Certain to invite comparisons to Hubert Selby and Cormac McCarthy ... one scalding pressure cooker of a novel, and I advise you to buckle up and hold on tight because you're in for one hell of a ride. -- Donald Ray Pollock Fiend is a no-holds barred shocker with finely drawn characters suffering in every way imaginable, and Stenson imagines a lot of ways. Grimtastic. Sunday Sport Paranoia sets in, nerves become stretched, the drugs fuelling fantasies and possibilities and the book comes to an end with a sorry sense of hopelessness and despair. I loved this book and can't wait for more from Peter. SF Books Keeps you reading by dragging you from one hammer blow to the next. ImagineFX This is the real meat. The last zombie novel you'll ever need. -- Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine and Twisted Little Vein