Jeff Forester

Jeff Forester studied writing with Ken Kesey at the University of Oregon, and with a class co-wrote and published CAVERNS on Viking Press in 1989. Following that Jeff published in the Whole Earth Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Rake Magazine, Cabin Life, Rolling Stone and others. His second book, FOREST FOR THE TREES, an ecological history of Minnesota's Boundary Waters, came out in 2005, won the Choice Critics Award, and was a finalist in the Minnesota Book Awards. FOREST FOR THE TREES was reprinted in paperback in 2009.

In 2005 Jeff won a Jerome Travel and Study Grant for his novel North Country Digs which is loosely based on his family history - Cornish tin miners who moved to northern Minnesota to open the iron ore mines in Tower, MN. Work on this novel remains ongoing.

His first script, HORSES, co-written with Jim Berg, won the Wisconsin Script Writers award in 2005, and was a finalist in the CineStory competition and Barry Morrow Scriptwriting awards. His first sale, FLASHPOINT, (Jim Berg and Joe Forte) is currently in development with Lorenzo Di Boniventura (Transformers, Constantine) at Paramount. His second film, A LIFETIME IN HEAT (Jim Berg, Joe Forte) is in development with Shampoo 160 LLC.

Jeff lives with his wife, two daughters, three chickens and lab Charlie in Uptown, Minneapolis. They spend most of their summers on 100 acres adjacent to the BWCA where they are building a log cabin themselves.