Peter James Stouffer spent decades navigating the precise worlds of engineering, invention, and corporate leadership as a CEO before turning his focus to the expansive world of fiction. A lifelong bibliophile with a vast personal library, his writing is fueled by a deep curiosity for science, exploration, and the intricate threads of history.
He lives with his wife on a historic Michigan farmstead and writes from a landscape of ridge, fen, cemetery, fence line, and riverbank. That ground provides the living setting of The Rose Covenant, an eight-volume reverse-chronology cycle that moves backward from the present toward the older strata beneath deed, road, and family record.
When he isn't writing, he can be found playing guitar, woodworking, or exploring the farmstead. He is the proud father of three and grandfather of eight.
The first published volume, The Excursion, reimagines Wordsworth in contemporary Michigan and sets the terms for the larger project: grief, inheritance, witness, and the moral demands of damaged ground.