Peter Gibb

I wrote my first story when I was five. A boy and a girl went into the woods in search of chives.

I've been searching and writing ever since.

After growing up in Scotland, England and Washington, D.C., I graduated from Brown University, thrived externally, in more careers than an octopus has legs, before settling down to live north of San Francisco. Finding work that was satisfying and successful, marrying and raising children brought my life into focus, but my biggest challenge still lurked around every shadowy corner.

What had been a distraction became a dungeon of despair. A too desperate need for approval ate away at me from inside. This is the story I tell in my memoir, King of Doubt. My journey from doubt to wonder, it's a story of well meaning but awkward parents, of cruel pedophile teachers, of the excesses of youth, of love and the unlikely ally who reappeared after a thirty year absence to help me in my darkest hour.

I now live in Ashland, OR. with my wife, Wendy. I write, teach and coach other memoir writers, emphasizing "Memoir & Mindfulness," an approach that combines memoir writing to claim and heal the past, and mindfulness to live joyously in the present.