“I was using language to create distance.”
Steeve Hoffman talks about his family’s time in southern France, writing a memoir, and learning to be soft to himself through creative process of writing from the heart.
About the speaker
Steve Hoffman is a Minnesota tax preparer and food writer. His writing has won multiple national awards, including the 2019 James Beard M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. He was nominated for a second James Beard Award in 2025. His first book, A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France, was named one of the best food and wine books of 2024 by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, and Saveur. He shares one acre on Turtle Lake, in Shoreview, Minnesota, with his wife, Mary Jo, roughly 80,000 honeybees, and a nesting pair of sandhill cranes.
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