Angela’s Story:

A True Crime

by Christian Peet

Nonfiction / Novel | Forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press

Reconstructed from case files, Angela’s Story is a heartbreaking true-crime novel about the wrongful conviction of Jeremy Barney, who as a teenager was sentenced to twenty years in maximum-security prison, not for crimes that he didn’t commit, but crimes that never actually occurred.

Read more about the case at the website for Jeremy Barney.

Angela’s Story:

A True Crime

by Christian Peet

Nonfiction / Novel | Forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press

Reconstructed from case files, Angela’s Story is a heartbreaking true-crime novel about the wrongful conviction of Jeremy Barney, who as a teenager was sentenced to twenty years in maximum-security prison, not for crimes that he didn’t commit, but crimes that never actually occurred.

Read more about the case at the website for Jeremy Barney.

About the Author

Founder and publisher of Tarpaulin Sky Press, Christian Peet received a BA from Bennington College, a MFA from Goddard College, and has taught Literature and Creative Writing classes at Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges, for the City University of New York (CUNY).

Peet’s previous work includes a collection of “postcards” entitled Big American Trip (Shearsman Books) and the trans-genre chapbooks Pluto: Never Forget (Interbirth Books) and The Nines (Palm Press). More of his writing may be found in the anthologies A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence Books) and A Megaphone (Chain Arts), as well as in magazines online and in print, including Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Fence, SleepingFish, and Trickhouse.

About the Author

Founder and publisher of Tarpaulin Sky Press, Christian Peet received a BA from Bennington College, a MFA from Goddard College, and has taught Literature and Creative Writing classes at Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges, for the City University of New York (CUNY).

Peet’s previous work includes a collection of “postcards” entitled Big American Trip (Shearsman Books) and the chapbooks Pluto: Never Forget (Interbirth Books) and The Nines (Palm Press). More of his writing may be found in the anthologies A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence Books) and A Megaphone (Chain Arts), as well as in magazines online and in print, including Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Fence, SleepingFish, and Trickhouse.