Peter Fugazzotto is a fantasy and science fiction author who fights to protect the earth by day and battles his ego with armbars and slashing sticks by night. He lives in Northern California with his wife, daughter, bird and dog.
His short stories have been published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Grimdark Magazine, and Sirens Call.
He currently is working on his grimdark Hounds of the North series, following the adventures and struggles of a band of aging Northern clan mercenaries. Read excerpts of his work.
To learn more about his professional consulting services for nonprofits, please visit his consulting services web pages.
Two line Fantasy Author Bio
Peter Fugazzotto is a published writer of fantasy and scifi, author of the Hounds of the North series, and martial arts world champ.
Short Author Bio
Peter Fugazzotto is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. His short stories have been published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly and Grimdark Magazine. His series The Hounds of North was launched with The Witch of the Sands in 2014. He is a lifelong martial artist and a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Medium Author Bio
Peter Fugazzotto is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. His short stories have been published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly and Grimdark Magazine. His fantasy series The Hounds of North was launched with the release of The Witch of the Sands in 2014. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in English and a minor in Creative Writing.
In addition to his writing, he is a lifelong student of the martial arts and is a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He lives in Northern California with his wife and daughter and an assortment of animals.
Long Author Bio
Peter Fugazzotto is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. His short story “Jiro” was published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly in 2013. His short story “The King Beneath the Waves” was published in Grimdark Magazine in 2015. His fantasy series The Hounds of North was launched with the release of The Witch of the Sands in 2014.
He is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in English and a minor in Creative Writing. He had supplemented his writing education through class/workshops with Terry Brooks, James D’Allessandro, and others.
His favorite authors include Robert E. Howard, Joe Abercrombie, Kameron Hurley, Joseph Conrad, Seamus Heaney and Jean Claude Izzo.
While he has been writing since he was a child, after graduating from college, he became active in the grassroots environmental movement. He coordinated the media portion of a campaign that convinced an oil company to stop dumping toxics in San Francisco Bay. He talked strategy and drank martinis with the legendary Dave Brower. He snuck into a press conference to challenge Vice President Al Gore around global trade policies. He avoided tear gas and arrest at the Battle of Seattle. He traveled to Papua New Guinea to launch community-based sea turtle conservation programs. He has raised millions of dollars for environmental causes.
In addition to his writing, he is a lifelong student of the martial arts, is a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu jitsu and has won a World Championship in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in 2013 (purple belt, senior 3, light feather). Arts he has studied include the grappling arts of judo and Brazilian jiu jitsu, the striking arts of karate, and the Chinese internal fighting arts of bagua, xingyi and taiji. He has also studied weapons including Western fencing, the Philippine bladed arts of kali and escrima, and Dog Brother-style sticking fighting.
To balance out his martial arts, he has practiced the Feldenkrais Method, and taught weekly group classes focused on improving movement and function.
He has traveled extensively. During a high school summer, he vaccinated community members in the rainforests of the Ecuadorian Amazon against yellow fever. He spent a university semester in a villa overlooking Florence, Italy and once held by Nazi occupiers. He traveled by Russian army truck and speedboat through Laos. He has swam with the dolphins and turtles in the warm waters of Hawaii.
He lives in Northern California with his wife and daughter and an assortment of animals. Every morning he walks his dog before sitting down to the desk to chip away at his stories and guzzle down cups of home roasted coffee.
