Eliot Treichel is the author of the young adult novel A SERIES OF SMALL MANEUVERS, which received the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Award and the Oregon Book Awards Readers Choice Award. He is also the author of the short story collection CLOSE IS FINE, which received the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award. He thinks riding bikes uphill is fun, sandwiches are better with potato chips, and that no one should go to bed without a cookie. Originally from Wisconsin, he now lives in Oregon.