Nick Hoffman

Nick Hoffman is a longtime journalist and editor who spent more than three decades working at a daily newspaper in Pennsylvania, where he chronicled the lives, struggles, and triumphs of the people in his community. A graduate of Penn State University, he began his career as a sportswriter before serving as bureau news manager, city editor, and eventually managing editor.

Raised in the rural town of Brockway, Pennsylvania, Hoffman grew up surrounded by family members, teachers, coaches, and neighbors whose quiet example left a lasting impact on his life. His early adulthood included a difficult battle with alcoholism that culminated in two DUI convictions before he found sobriety in 1992 at Valley Hope Association in Norton, Kansas. The experience sparked a spiritual transformation that deepened his commitment to faith, humility, and service.

After leaving the newspaper in 2014, Hoffman became community initiatives coordinator for Varischetti Holdings in Brockway.

Blending memoir with reflections inspired by decades of reporting, Hoffman writes about ordinary people whose lives reveal extraordinary grace.

He Was There All the Time is his first book.