Peter O'Leary

Peter O'Leary

PETER O'LEARY earned his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. The author of Watchfulness and Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness, he has also edited several collections of poetry by Ronald Johnson, including The Shrubberies, selections from which were included in The Best American Poetry 2002. He is the longtime coeditor of the literary magazine LVNG and an integral member of the Chicago Poetry Project. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.