Paul Bogard is the author of The End of Night and The Ground Beneath Us, both published by Little, Brown, and the children's picture book What If Night? from Keystone Canyon Press. He is editor of the anthology Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark. A native Minnesotan, Paul grew up watching the stars and moon from a lake in the northern part of the state. He has lived and taught in New Mexico, Nevada, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Virginia, and is now an associate professor of English at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Find him at paul-bogard.com.