Pete Fromm is a record setting five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award. His books include the novels If Not for This, As Cool As I Am, How All This Started; the story collection Dry Rain; and the memoirs, Indian Creek Chronicles and The Names of the Stars, which won the Evans Handcart Award for excellence in biography and a Montana Book Award. As Cool As I Am is also a feature film starring Claire Danes, James Marsden, and Sarah Bolger, and Dry Rain is a short film starring James LeGros and Nathan Gamble. Pete is the author of four other short story collections and has published over two hundred stories in magazines. His most recent novel, A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do, was published in May, 2019. His novel Le Lac De Nulle Part (Lake Nowhere) was published in France in January, 2022, and his novel, Imperatice Des Airs (Empress of the Air), is forthcoming in France in May 2025. He speaks regularly at writer’s conferences around the country and in Europe. He lives in Montana.
 
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