To meet Peter Chilson is to learn his love of Africa. Some might even call it an obsession, but it's far from a horrible one.

I personally had the opportunity to hear him read a draft of the last short story in the collection, Toumani Ogun, in an advanced creative writing workshop. He read it to illustrate a point, every last one of us believe him to be the narrator of the story, believe the story to be nonfiction.

Disturbance-Loving Species is a collection of stories of Africa and America, stories of the differences between our two peoples. Chilson takes his characters out of their element and places them in a completely different world (Either Africa, or the United States Pacific Northwest) with new skills to master. From the English teacher who traveled to Africa to find himself to the former Major Ogun, murder and bandit, working as a gas attendant P. Chilson writes about Africa and the tension between African cultures and Western cultures.