Philip Hoelzel

Philip Hoelzel is the author of Planting Hope: A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado and Samba! The Heartbeat of a Community: Ailton Nunes’s Musical Journey. Philip was born and raised near Chicago, Illinois. As a child he played soccer, went camping with his parents and siblings and spent a lot of time outdoors. Today, when not writing, Philip can be found managing in an outdoor retail store, hiking local trails, doing school visits as an author and performing with a Brazilian percussion group in Austin, Texas.