Andrew Vietze

Andrew Vietze does his scribbling in the back bedroom of an old Maine farmhouse and a cabin deep in the woods of Baxter State Park. He’s the author of five books, including his latest, Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: How a Maine Guide Inspired America’s 26th President, which recently won a silver medal at the IPPYs – the Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York. The former managing editor of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, he’s written for a wide variety of magazines and online publications, including Time Out New York, The New York Times’ LifeWire, Weather.com’s Forecast Earth, Crawdaddy!, AMC Outdoors, Popmatters, Hooked on the Outdoors, Explore, Offshore, Big Sky Journal, MaineBiz, and Maine Times. Two of his pieces for Down East have won awards for feature writing from the International Regional Magazine Association. For six months of each year, he works as a ranger in the wilds of the Katahdin region. And he’s currently finishing his first novel, a thriller based in the North Woods of Maine during the lumbering era – and looking for a new agent.