Peter Heller holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and longtime contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at [i]Outside[/i] magazine, [i]Men’s Journal[/i], and [i]National Geographic Adventure[/i], and a regular contributor to [i]Bloomberg Businessweek[/i]. He is also the author of several nonfiction books, including [i]Kook[/i], [i]The Whale Warriors[/i], and [i]Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River[/i]. He lives in Denver, Colorado.