Peter Meech

Peter Meech is an award-winning author, memoirist, filmmaker and playwright. His memoir Mysteries of the Life Force: My Apprenticeship with a Chi Kung Master (Simon & Schuster) chronicles the first seven years of an apprenticeship with a celebrated chi kung master from Shanghai. Peter has spoken about his ongoing inquiry into energy cultivation and consciousness on the podcast New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove. 

Peter’s debut novel Billy (the Kid) (Simon & Schuster) was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival and was praised by Larry McMurtry and Craig Johnson and hailed by The New York Journal of Books for its wit, lyricism, and ambitious narrative voice. Peter brings this same love of narrative craft to memoir writing, helping writers shape lived experience into artful and emotionally resonant stories.

As a screenwriter and director, Peter wrote, directed, and produced the award-winning feature film Around Robin, which premiered in Capri at the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival. His award-winning television writing credits include HBO’s The Adventures of Tintin, CBC’s Emily of New Moon, Disney’s Ready or Not, and international television and film projects in Germany, Japan, and Romania. He has also written Search Out the Land, a 90-minute documentary, soon be released.

Peter holds a Master’s degree from Stanford University, where he received the Stanford Nichol Fellowship in Screenwriting. A longtime lecturer on the art of storytelling, he is a member of the Writers Guild of Canada, Writers Guild of America, BAFTA, SAG-AFTRA, the Dramatists Guild of America, and ASCAP.