Brian Payton

Brian Payton is the bestselling author of The Wind Is Not a River, which was published internationally and chosen as an Amazon Book of the Month, an Amazon Canada Best Fiction of the Year, and a “Best Book of the Year” by both the Seattle Times and BookPage. He is also the author of the novel Hail Mary Corner and two acclaimed works of narrative nonfiction: Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness, which was a Barnes and Noble Book Club Pick and a U.S. National Outdoor Book Awards Book of the Year; and The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness, which was a finalist for the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize. He lives with his family on Vancouver Island.