Peter Schneider
Rebecca Schneider
Laurel Schneider
Paul Schneider

Peter Schneider

Peter is a poet who has also been a farmer, theologian, counselor, co-director of Amherst Writers & Artists, and father of four children. A Wisconsin native, he lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. His first book of poems was published in 2006 to great celebration and excellent response:

Line Fence, Amherst Writers & Artists Press, 2006.

Line Fence will soon be listed on our Online Order page.
In the meantime, it may be ordered by email at this address: peter@amherstwriters.com

The following are responses to Line Fence that appear on the book's back cover:

Peter Schneider's poems have taken me on a journey I never expected to take. They are clear and honest and beautiful. He has grabbed the big questions of life and death by the bull's horns and made them fit into the legs of a pheasant hen, a shag bark hickory and the blue veins of a woman's breasts. I see a countryside changing as the book moves from poem to poem. I see a way of life receding into a root cellar, and I see a boy growing into a thoughtful, tender, honest man because he looked at all these things with compassion and wonder. These poems say to me that life, in all its trouble and loss is worth savoring. There is so much love here, I feel blessed.

Maureen Buchanan Jones, Ph.D., Poet, Fiction & Non-fiction author, Amherst Writers & Artists Affiliate workshop leader.


These poems are a retreat for me, to a childhood of farms, neighbors, my rural family, the expression of place on the faces of my grandparents. When the look of hard work on a woman was a lean, veined muscle and the sun-baked hands and neck on a man was his credit. When the best days, before television, were outdoors in the woods tracking the world around us, growing and feeding the world within. When the word of a person was his or her praise among neighbors. When the golden light of summer and the dominant scent of new-mown hay was abundance. Peter Schneider, through the integrity of his heart and language evokes here the cost and the reward of this struggle, "working the land."

Al Miller, Poet and Farmer.

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Rebecca Schneider

Rebecca Schneider is Director of the MA and PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University. She has written extensively on theatre and performance practices that stretch accepted borders around media. She has written on performance art, photography, architecture, and even everyday life as "performative." She teaches in theatre history as well as on performance art, feminist and race-critical performance, and visual culture and performance. She is currently completing a book on "Reenactment" that engages historical reenactment in popular culture, theatre, and visual art. Her first book is:

The Explicit Body in Performance, Routledge, 1997.

For further information about Rebecca: research.brown.edu/myresearch/Rebecca_Schneider

Laurel Schneider

Laurel is Associate Professor of Theology, Ethics and Culture at Chicago Theological Seminary. Her research addresses key tensions in critical tensions in contemporary ideas of God. She is the author of:

Re-Imagining the Divine: Confronting the Backlash against Feminist Theology, Pilgrim Press, 1999. Signed copies will soon be available on this website on our Online Order page.

Beyond Monotheism: A Theology of Multiplicity, Routledge, 2007.

For further information about Laurel: www.ctschicago.edu/academic/facultyid10.php

Paul Schneider

Paul is author of three books, all of which have received full and generous review in the New York Times Book Review. His latest book, Brutal Journey, has been widely reviewed, including the Boston Globe, the Washington Post , the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. His books are:

Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America, Henry Holt, 2006

The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, Henry Holt, 2000

The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness, Henry Holt, 1997.

For further information about Paul, to read reviews, and to order signed copies: www.schneiderbooks.com.

Pat Schneider - 413-253-6353
P.O. Box 1076 Amherst, MA 01004