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Peter Heller is an American author and long time contributor to NPR. He is also a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and Men’s Journal. He writes adventure columns which have won him awards in the past and he has written numerous books of literary nonfiction.

Heller was born in New York, but moved to Vermont for high school and later went to New Hampshire to attend Dartmouth College. The latter is where he found his love for the outdoors and became expedition kayaker. At this time, he would write about the challenging descents. Finding a love for writing, he would attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he earned an MFA in fiction and poetry. Heller would win a Michener fellowship for his epic poem “The Psalms of Malvine.” He would go on to take part in one of the most ambitious whitewater expeditions and write about it in his book, Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River.

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