John Shtogren

John A. Shtogren is a lifelong hunter and award-winning outdoors writer. He received a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun on his eighth birthday and learned to wing-shoot cabbage moths in the family vegetable garden. Later he prowled the northern Michigan woods—Hemingway country—for grouse, deer, and bear.

For a decade he was the editor of The Virginia Sportsman magazine and frequent contributor to Virginia Wildlife, the publication of Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources. His writings won numerous awards from the Virginia Outdoors Writers Association. He has been an advisor to the Virginia Feral Hog Task Force, which spearheads the state’s effort to control its feral hog population.

He took his first hog on the Virginia coast three decades ago and went on to hunt hogs throughout the Southeast and as far south as the Tex-Mex border.

In addition to writing High on Hogs, he is widely published on the topic of leadership development, including "Skyhooks for Leadership." He is currently working on a new book with a working title of "Hog Hunting in the Far West: Fair Chase in New Mexico, California, and Hawaii."