Peter Geye is the author of five novels – A Lesser Light, Northernmost, Safe from the Sea, The Lighthouse Road, which was a World Book Night selection, and Wintering, which won the Minnesota Book Award and was a Midwest Booksellers Choice award winner. He holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, where he was editor of Third Coast. He teaches the Novel Writing Program at The Loft.