Writing the Journey: June 1999

Peter Chilson

Peter Chilson is the author of Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa published by Georgia University Press this spring. The book won the recent Associated Writing Programs Creative Non-Fiction Award. An essayist and journalist, Peter Chilson spent five years in West Africa, first as a Peace Corps volunteer, then as a freelance reporter, writing mainly for the Associated Press, and, finally, to research this book.

His writings have appeared in the London Daily Telegraph, Audubon, West Africa Magazine, North American Review, Grand Tour, and other publications. He is a professor of English at Washington State University and lives nearby in Moscow, Idaho.

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