Peter Swanson

Peter Swanson studied creative writing, pedagogy, and literature at Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. Among other works, he has authored the novels "The Girl with a Clock for a Heart" and "Her Every Fear." His books have been translated into thirty languages. His short stories and poems have been published in "The Atlantic Monthly," "Measure," "The Guardian," and "The Strand Magazine." He lives with his wife and a cat in Massachusetts, USA. His novel "The Kind Worth Killing" was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Crime Fiction in 2015 and received the New England Society Book Award for Fiction in 2016.