Stu Krieger's lastest novel RAFT is the tale of stressed-out children's book author Clark Whitaker whose midlife crisis take an unexpected twist: he turns into a penguin. Told in the alternating voices of Clark, his harried wife Julia, their high school senior son Charlie and sophomore daughter Katie, RAFT is a comic family adventure that the late, great David Crosby called, "fun and imaginative...just the kind of trip we all need right now." Stu is a professor of screen and television writing in the University of California, Riverside’s Department of Theatre, Film & Digital Production and in the Creative Writing for the Performing Arts MFA Program at UCR. From 2001-2020, he also taught the Producing the Screenplay class at USC’s Peter Stark MFA Producing Program. Krieger co-wrote the Emmy award winning mini-series A Year in the Life and was nominated for a Humanitas Prize for co-writing the Disney Channel original movie, Going to the Mat. Additional credits include writing the animated classic The Land Before Time for producers Steven Spielberg & George Lucas and ten original movies for the Disney Channel, including Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and its two sequels, Tru Confessions, Smart House, Phantom of the Megaplex, Gotta Kick It Up and Cow Belles. Mr. Krieger’s TEDx Talk, “Choose Joy,” can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v02wr... In April 2017, Stu received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Screenwriting at the opening night gala of the 2017 Riverside International Film Festival. Listen to a full interview with Stu at findingfounders.co/episodes/stu-krieger. Please follow him on Instagram and TikTok: @stukrieger