Eller, Gary: - Gary Eller is the author of TRUE NORTH and the short fiction collection, THIN ICE AND OTHER RISKS.His writing has appeared in many publications, and he is the winner of the River City Award in Fiction, the Fowler Prize, and the Minnesota Voices Award, among others. He studied at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and he is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives and writes in Ames, Iowa, while spending part of each summer in his family's cabin on scenic Lake Upsilon in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota, the area where most of TRUE NORTH is set.