Peter Jacob Streitz came from a single parent home in rural up-state New York. Got a full basketball scholarship to college, but left within a week's time to return to his village where he manned the doughnut fryer at the local bakery from 2AM to 6AM before assuming his gofer duties at 7AM to 3PM for the production-line ladies at the Quackenbush Nutcracker Factory. In the dead of winter he discovered an opening at Boston University's School of Education and graduated with the only diploma ever given for Alternative Education. He then worked for a collection agency, repossessing sticks from deadbeats in Roxbury and South Boston before working for a greeting card company and ending his business career as a corporate executive for a number of now defunct computer companies. Since retiring from the American industrial complex he's been writing prose and poetry in San Francisco.
