About me
Gary Eldon Peter is the author of the short story collection Oranges, recipient of the Gold Medal for LGBTQ+ fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Midwest Book Award, and the novel The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen, which received the Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Literature, the Silver Award in the Foreword Reviews INDIE Book of the Year Award for Young Adult Fiction, and the Whippoorwill Book Award for Rural Young Adult Literature. It was also was named one of the best Young Adult books of 2022 by National Public Radio. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies and has been performed on the public radio program Selected Shorts. He recently retired after 21 years as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota to write full-time. He lives in St. Paul and is at work on his third book, a collection of personal essays.