Peter von Ziegesar is the author of the memoir, The Looking Glass Brother (Picador, 2014).

In 2022, along with Melissa Scholes Young, he founded the Tennants Cove Writers Workshop, a center for fiction, memoir, and screenwriting, located on the Saint John River in New Brunswick, Canada.

He has written for The New York Times, WNYC, Art in America, Artnet, Lapham's Quarterly, The Common, Aeon, Serious Eats, Out, Outside, and more.

He is a founding board member of the literary translation publisher, Archipelago Books, winner of national and international awards.

His early films are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and were featured in the recent MoMA exhibitions, Private Lives, Public Spaces and Club 57.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the writer, Hali Lee, a golden retriever named Stu, and several hives of Italian honey bees.