Peter Swanson's first novel, the thriller The Girl with a Clock for a Heart (2014), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His next novel, The Kind Worth Killing (2015), won the New England Society Book Award. His work has also appeared in Strand Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, the Atlantic, Measure, and the Guardian. His most recent novel, Her Every Fear, was published in January. In a starred review, Booklist writes that in Her Every Fear, “the skillfully conjured Boston winter creates the perfect atmosphere for breeding paranoia.” Swanson has degrees from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Emerson College. Swanson’s favorite word is “sinister,” and he rereads Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis ever year.