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 over 100 magazines, anthologies and websites. His first recording as a jazz vocalist, Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer, was released in 2016. Pelekinesis has previously released three collections of his short fiction, most recently Whistler's Mother's Son. Of his 2013 book Lift Your Right Arm, Billy Collins suggested, "To Gödel, Escher and Bach we might consider adding Peter Cherches." Cherches is a native of Brooklyn, New York.