Peter Ferry
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Peter Ferry was a Chicago area teacher, editor and writer. He edited textbooks for Rand McNally and was a frequent contributor to the travel pages of the Chicago Tribune and the website WorldHum. His short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Fiction, StoryQuarterly, OR and Chicago Quarterly Review. Ferry was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Award for Short Fiction. Old Heart, which won the Chicago Writers Association Novel of the Year award in 2015. His award-winning novel, Old Heart was adapted and turned into a stage play by the theatrical and movie producer Roger Rapoport, and it opened at the Redmond Theater in Detroit in May of 2022. Rapoport has also purchased the movie rights to Old Heart, and his adaptation is currently in production.
Old Heart
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