Called "one of the innovators of the short short story" by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches is a writer, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in dozens of magazines, anthologies and websites. His first recording as a jazz vocalist, Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer, was released in 2016. He is the author of WHISTLER'S MOTHER'S SON AND OTHER CURIOSITIES (Pelekinesis, 2020), AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITHOUT WORDS (Pelekinesis, 2017), and LIFT YOUR RIGHT ARM (Pelekinesis, 2013). Cherches is a native of Brooklyn, New York.