Peter Wick

Peter Wick grew up in the suburbs of Seattle, spending most of his childhood in the city of Bellevue, Washington. He was 4th of five siblings. His oldest brother, David Wick, is a respected Historian at Gordon College in Massachusetts, a lecturer on ancient Greece, and organizer of a yearly conference in Athens. His younger sister Keren is also a professor, involved in medical research at the University of Washington, in Seattle. As a teenager Wick hooked up with an eclectic group of suburban teenage musicians and artists, from several different area schools. The center-piece of this disorganized and chaotic group was the early 1980's punk band "Mr. Epp and the Calculations." Although the band was described by local radio DJ Stephen Rabow as, "The worst band in the world," (immediately prior to his airing of "The Pigeon in the Fountain Bed," a noisy spoken-word rendition by Wick of his short story, over a wall of background noise) the band played a formative role in what would eventua