Douglas Gayeton is an American multimedia artist, filmmaker, writer, and photographer who divides his time between a farm near Petaluma, California and Pistoia, a medieval Tuscan town. Along with his wife, Laura Howard-Gayeton, he directs The Lexicon. He is author of Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town and LOCAL: The new Face of Food and Farming in America. Gayeton is also the creator of Delta State and Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey.