Peter Najarian

Peter Najarian is the author of three novels, Voyages (Pantheon, 1971), Wash Me on Home Again, Mama (Berkley Poets' Workshop & Press, 1978), and Daughters of Memory (City Minor, 1986). Peter Najarian grew up in Union City, New Jersey. He has been writing since he was a teenager and like lots of other writers he has worked at many different kinds of jobs in the meanwhile. He taught film study at several colleges in London, England, and he also taught creative writing at San Francisco State University and Wayne State University. At the moment he is working as a housepainter in Berkeley, California. His other books are Wash Me On Home, Mama (Berkeley Poets Press, 1978) and Storytime which has not yet found a publisher.