Jamie Brisick

Jamie Brisick—a lifelong surfer—is the author of Becoming Westerly: The Transformation of Surfing Champion Peter Drouyn into Westerly Windina (Allen and Unwin, 2015), Roman and Williams Buildings & Interiors: Things We Made (Rizzoli, 2012), The Eighties at Echo Beach (Chronicle, 2011), Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate and Snow (HarperCollins, 2004), and We Approach Our Martinis with Such High Expectations (Consafos Press, 2002). He is presently Global Editor of Huck, a U.K.-based surf/skate/snow magazine. He was previously Executive Editor of Surfing, the most widely read surf magazine in the world. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Details, The Guardian, and The Sydney Morning Herald. In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study and write about youth culture in Japan. An online portfolio of his work is available at www.jamiebrisick.com.