Steve Hawk

Steve Hawk began his writing career as a newspaper reporter. He would go on to spend eight years as editor of Surfer, six years as executive editor of Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club), and five years as editor of Stanford Business.

He also worked as a writer and consultant on the fictional HBO series John From Cincinnati. He is the author of Waves, a coffee-table book about the aesthetics and physics of ocean waves, and recently ghost-wrote a book (due out in the summer of 2027) for his brother, Tony, that celebrates the history and culture of skateboarding.

He has been surfing for nearly 60 years, and is one of a one of a handful of people to have ridden waves on all seven continents. He lives with his family near Half Moon Bay, California, where he spends as much time as possible frolicking in the ocean.

Nearshore is his first novel.