Peter Manseau is the author the memoir Vows, the novel Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter, and most recently the travelogue Rag and Bone.
He has won the National Jewish Book Award, the Sophie Brody Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature, the Ribalow Prize for Fiction, and a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.

A founding editor of KillingTheBuddha.com and coauthor of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, he is currently a doctoral candidate in religion at Georgetown University and the Patrick Henry Writing Fellow at the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Follow him on Twitter @petermanseau