AUTHOR

Peter Brown Hoffmeister

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Peter Brown Hoffmeister is the author of five books including the forthcoming Too Shattered For Mending (Knopf, Random House, 2017). His books have been translated into Chinese, German, and Italian. He was an Oregon Literary Arts fellow in fiction, 2006, and also served as the spring 2015 Writer-In-Residence at Joshua Tree National Park. A former troubled teen, Hoffmeister was expelled from three high schools, arrested, remanded to a parole/rehabilitation program, and lived for a short while in a Greyhound Bus station. These stories are included in his 2011 memoir The End Of Boys (Soft Skull Press). Hoffmeister is now an author, rock climber, public speaker, survival expert, and athlete gear-tester for Ridgemont Outfitters. He lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife Jennie and two daughters, and runs the Integrated Outdoor Program at South Eugene High School.