Jeff Wallach has been chasing stories since the 1980s — first for local papers, then for the magazines that travel with you on airplanes, and eventually for nearly every glossy with a literary streak. Along the way he has filed close to a thousand articles, essays, and columns from golf courses, rivers, foreign cities, and a few rooms he probably should not have walked into.
He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Brown University and a BA in English from Vassar College. He has taught fiction and magazine writing across high schools, colleges, adult education programs, and writers' conferences. He currently serves as the golf columnist for Business Traveler Magazine, where he writes about the game the way other people write about cathedrals.
Mr. Wizard, his debut novel, is the book he had wanted to write for thirty years and finally did. It was followed by Everyone Here Is From Somewhere Else, a stand-alone sequel and prequel that reaches back into the Elliot family's history. His earlier non-fiction includes Driven to Extremes — a collection of essays from golf's unmanicured edges — Beyond the Fairway, and three other sports related titles.
He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he plays soccer, and claims — with characteristic modesty — to have a good short game for a journalist. He is currently at work on his next novel.
