Jason Peters tends a small acreage in Ingham County, Michigan, where he lives with his longsuffering wife, their children, a dog, several laying hens, and a few parsimonious honey bees.
A founding member of FPR, Peters is the editor of both
Local Culture: A Journal of the Front Porch Republic and Front Porch Republic Books.
He is also Professor of English at
Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
His books include
The Culinary Plagiarist: (Mis)Adventures of a Lusty, Thieving, God-Fearing Gourmand (FPR Books 2020),
Wendell Berry: Life and Work (University Press of Kentucky 2007),
Land! The Case for an Agrarian Economy, by John Crowe Ransom (University Press of Notre Dame, 2017), and
Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto (co-edited with Mark T. Mitchell for FPR Books, 2018).
He has tried to break life-long debilitating addictions to basketball, golf, fly-fishing, and puttering & tinkering but has been woefully unsuccessful.
