Peter Heller is the national best-selling author of The River, Celine, The Painter, and The Dog Stars.
He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers\' Workshop in poetry and fiction and lives in Denver, Colorado..
Heller is also the author of four nonfiction books, including Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave , which was awarded the National Outdoor Book Award for Literature.
The Painter was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the prestigious Reading the West Book Award, shared in the past by Western writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Terry Tempest Williams, and The Dog Stars, which was published to critical acclaim and lauded as a breakout bestseller, has been published in twenty-two languages to date.
Peter Heller is the national best-selling author of The River, Celine, The Painter, and The Dog Stars
