THURSDAY 10/16 | 6PM-8PM Join Colorado novelist and adventure writer Peter Heller for our 2025 Literature Festival Author Keynote event! The evening will start at 6pm with an author meet and greet with drinks and hors d'oeuvres, followed by an author talk and book signing. For those unable to attend in person, the event will be live streamed via Zoom. Heller is the national best-selling author of The Last Ranger (2023), a vibrant, lyrical mystery set in Yellowstone National Park. Heller has also written the novels The River, The Guide, Celine, The Painter, and The Dog Stars. The Painter was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the prestigious Reading the West Book Award and The Dog Stars, which was published to critical acclaim and lauded as a breakout bestseller, is being turned into a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott. Heller is also the author of four nonfiction books. An award-winning adventure writer and a longtime contributor to NPR, Heller has been a contributing editor at Outside magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in poetry and fiction.