Peter Clothier has spent many years enriching lives across the world through his writing and fresh perspectives on politics, teaching, the creative process, art, religion, and culture.  As a long time observer of the contemporary art world and a widely published writer, Peter Clothier’s publications include: Aspley Guise, poems, Red Hill Press, San Francisco, 1969; Parapoems, Horizon Press, New York, 1972; Chiaroscuro, a novel, St. Martins Press, New York, 1985, Signet Paperback, 1986; Dirty Down, a novel, Atheneum, New York, 1987; David Hockney, a monograph in the Abbeville Modern Masters Series, New York, 1994; While I Am Not Afraid: Secrets of a Man’s Heart, a memoir, published by High Mountain Press, Santa Fe, 1997 and a collection of political essays, The Bush Diaries.  He also wrote Mind Work: Shedding Delusions of the Path to the Creative Core, a series of essays examining the importance of self-examination to the creative process, and Persist: In Praise of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad with Commerce, which addresses the predicament of the creative individual in a culture in which celebrity and money trump talent and quality of work. His most recent book, DEAR HARRY: LETTERS TO MY FATHER, will be published Fall 2022.