Gary Goldhammer –author and storyteller.

I’m a novelist and former journalist drawn to stories about time, mortality, memory, technology, and what it means to be (and stay) human.

For more than three decades, I worked as a reporter, editor, and storyteller across newsrooms, brands, and emerging technologies.I began my career in journalism with The Associated Press, United Press International, and Scripps-Howard Newspapers, where I learned to observe closely, write with clarity, and navigate complex moral terrain. That foundation still shapes my work today.

My fiction and nonfiction explore moral systems under pressure—justice and mercy, identity and humanity, power and consequence. I’m the author of novels including The Death and Life of A.J. Mercer, Zaria’s Gate, and The Soul of the Rose, as well as books examining the death penalty and the evolving media landscape. In my corporate work, I help organizations tell more human stories about technology and change—work that continues to influence my fiction, particularly as AI, automation, and digital identity reshape our lives.

I believe stories matter because they slow us down. They resist simplification. They remind us who we are—and what we can still become.