About Fitz Cahall
In January 2007, I was 28-years-old and felt like the dream I had been chasing my entire life was unsustainable. A friend once told me, "Write from the heart, write what's true and things will work out." It was getting harder to believe. I worked hard, but the stories I loved so much failed to make it from my hard drive to the pages of magazines. Rent checks were getting harder to write. By February, I was studying for the GRE and looking at grad schools I didn't really want to attend.
The thing is–you can't turn off a dream. With a go-for-broke mentality, I began bundling my favorite stories into the Dirtbag Diaries. My office has become a tangle of cords and microphones. With each new episode, I emerge bleary-eyed and in need of a can of PBR. Professionally, I have never been happier in my life.
This world is filled with great stories. They come from friends during big wall belays, around campfires and on long drives across empty deserts. I look forward to telling as many as I can. Thank you for your letters, your input and most of all for listening to the Dirtbag Diaries.
