S. Peter Lewis

S. Peter Lewis began writing books in 1992 and spent the next 15 years writing, editing, photographing, and designing guidebooks and instructional manuals for technical mountaineering. In 2005 he self-published (as partner in the publishing company, TMC Books, LLC) his first book of a more whimsical nature, Treehouse Chronicles: One man's dream of life aloft, which went on to win nine national book awards. For the last dozen or so years he has worked full time editing, illustrating, and designing books for a small medical school. In 2006 he began writing a column for his local, small-town newspaper, touching on a variety of subjects, but focusing on family essays, most specifically on his relationship with his wife and two children. His column won state journalism awards every year for the first seven years, and is still going strong. In 2014 he founded The Dad Story Project (TDSP), an internet-based community which he describes as a "ministry of encouragement to fathers." Through TDSP he publishes essays and books based on his newspaper columns; and he also solicits and publishes positive stories from anyone who would like to join his online endeavor to celebrate the joys of growing up. His first TDSP book, The day we blew up the cat, and other stories from a normal childhood, came out in early 2015. He's been married to his childhood sweetheart, Karen since 1982, and they have two grown children, Jeremiah and Amanda, and a granddaughter, Sophie. Lewis describes himself as a "Christian, husband, father, and friend...in that order," and he lives on an old farm in western Maine. In his spare time he rock climbs, runs mountain trails, fly fishes, mountain bikes, and wishes he took more naps.