Creative Writer. Free Thinker.
Greetings and welcome!
My name is Peter Biles, and I work as a writer and professor of creative writing. I am the author of several books of fiction, including Hillbilly Hymn, Keep, Through the Eye of Old Man Kyle, and Last November, and my work has appeared in Plough, The Dispatch, Dappled Things, Midsummer Dream House, The American Spectator, The Gospel Coalition, Inkwell, Mind Matters, and many others.
Scroll down to check out my novels, short story collections, and other published work. Subscribe also to my Substack, Battle the Bard, for more creative writing.
BOOKS
Stylus Mang: A Novel (Forthcoming)
The Antarctic Dream: A Novella (Forthcoming)
What the Tree Saw: Short Fictions (Forthcoming)
Last November: Short Stories (2025)
Through the Eye of Old Man Kyle: A Novel (2024)
Hillbilly Hymn: A Faerie Tale (2022)
Keep & Other Stories (2022
STORIES, ESSAYS, & REVIEWS
Plain ‘Literacy’ Isn’t Enough - The Dispatch, January 2026
Avatar: Fire and Ash: Beautiful and Bland | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics, December 2025
Should Everyone Write?Mere Orthodoxy, December 2025
The Dock | Vilas Avenue, October 2025
A Dog Named Job by Peter Biles – literally stories, October 2025
The Limits of the Think Piece - Christianity Today, September 2025
Screwtape starts a podcast | WORLD, September 2025
CBS in Talks to Buy The Free Press | Mind Matters, September 2025
Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture? | Science and Culture Today, August 2025
The Post-College Friendship Slump | Inkwell, May 2025
AI Slop is Invading the Culture | Mind Matters, April 2025
Are Colleges Beyond Saving? | Mind Matters, April 2025
"Turbo" | Front Porch Republic, March 2025
Tariffs Would Eat the Video Game Industry, Entertainment's Biggest Sector | RealClearMarkets, March 2025
Douthat Makes the Case for Religion | Evolution News, February 2025
A Novelist Posts on the Paranormal | Mind Matters, February 2025
Writing for the Common Good | Front Porch Republic, February 2025
The Universe’s Remarkable Intelligibility | Evolution News, February 2025
Who Asked for a Goonies Reboot? | RealClearBooks, February 2025
Music in the Mind | Mind Matters, January 2025
Tell, Don’t Just Show | Pens and Poison, December 2024
The Absurdity of Our Media Moment | Mind Matters, December 2024
Books, Scrolls, and the Liberating Power of Fiction | Keinrath Publishing, December 2024
Universities Need to Stop Coddling Students with Cancelled Classes | RealClearEducation, December 2024 (Cowrote with Dr. Keri D. Ingraham of Discovery Institute)
The Observer | Silly Goose Press, November 2024
November | Battle the Bard, November 2024
The Rings of Power Has ChatGPT Syndrome | The American Spectator, September 2024
Experience is Going Extinct: A Review of Christine Rosen’s New Book | Mind Matters, September 2024
Smartphones are Killing Kids’ Ability to Concentrate | The Washington Times, September 2024 (with Keri D. Ingraham of Discovery Institute)
Live Music is Making a Comeback, and So is Bob Dylan | Mind Matters, August 2024
Finally Something Politicians Agree On: Phone-Free Schools | Mind Matters, August 2024
AI is Not Your Friend. Good Thing, Too | The American Spectator, August 2024.
Confessions of a Music User | Plough, August 2024
A Certain Ghost’s Long and Final Fall Back to Earth | The Ana, July 2024
We’re Missing the Plot When it Comes to AI | The American Spectator, July 2024
Critics of Lolita Need to Learn How to Read Fiction | The American Spectator, July 2024
Phone Bans Are Good. Now Bring Back the Books | RealClearEducation, July 2024
Gen Z Needs To Put The Phone Down And Go On A Date | The Daily Caller, June 2024
Margo’s World | Midsummer Dream House, Issue Two, June 2024
Gen Z Is In Big Trouble | The Daily Caller, May 2024
The Uniqueness of the Human Writer | Mind Matters, May 2024
The Beautiful Cross of Asher Lev | Ad Fontes, April 2024
Experiencing the Numinous | WORLD, March 2024
The Fisher’s Man | Midsummer Dream House, Issue One, February 2024
Alexandra | Midsummer Dream House, Issue One, February 2024
A Strange, Piercing Longing | WORLD, January 2024
This is My Religion: Why Art Fails as a Substitute for Faith | The Gospel Coalition, Sept. 2023
Tree Tipping | Front Porch Republic, April 2023
ChatGPT Versus the Human Voice in Literature | Salvo, March 2023
Meme-ing Ourselves to Death | The Gospel Coalition, September 2022
Shooting the Satyr | Dappled Things, Summer 2022
Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres and the Idolatry of Eros | The Gospel Coalition, April 2022
Solo Elk Hunt | Plough, February 2022
On the Schole of Faerie Tales | Breaking Ground, June 2021
The Reading Option | Dappled Things, October 2020
Our Social Dilemma | Salvo, October 2020
Loneliness at College | Plough, November 2019
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