Peter Brown Hoffmeister

Peter Brown Hoffmeister is an American author, poet, educator, and former rock-climbing and whitewater-rafting guide. He received an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship for Fiction in 2006 and directs the Integrated Outdoor Program at South Eugene High School, where he teaches literature and outdoor pursuits. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, with his wife and daughters.

His memoir, The End of Boys, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2011 and recounts his troubled adolescence and path toward recovery. His other published works include Let Them Be Eaten by Bears, Graphic the Valley, This Is the Part Where You Laugh, and Too Shattered for Mending.