Peter Wiesner

Peter Wiesner was born in South Croydon, England, spent his childhood in both East and West Berlin, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1954, settling in Santa Monica, California. He studied History at the University of California at Berkeley and earned graduate degrees at both the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. In addition to several positions in higher education, he spent twenty-three years with the IEEE, an international professional association for electrical engineers, for which he developed courseware and video programs for engineers and the general public. He has worked as an educator, writer, film and video producer. After retirement in 2010, he has devoted himself to painting and creative writing, publishing his debut novel, Xtremus: a Bionican Quest in the Wake of Cybergeddon (Montag Pres, 2013) , drawing from his experience in the technology field. He published Bipolar Refugee: a Saga of Survival and Resilience (2023) about his mother, a Holocaust survivor who left Berlin on the Kindertransport. He is currently working a satire about Artificial Intelligence drawing from his background in the technology field.