Peter Brown is a translator and fiction writer. His fiction has appeared in The Harvard Review, The Mississippi Review, Post Road and his translations from French and Spanish have appeared in a variety of venues including Salamander, The Bitter Oleander, Consequences, The Straddler and Upstreet. His collection of short fiction, A Bright Soothing Noise, was selected as the winner of the Katherine Ann Porter Prize and was published by the UNT Press in 2011. He is senior editor of the journal Salamander.