Alan A. Win­ter is the author of four nov­els besides Wolf: Island Bluffs, Snowflakes in the Sahara, Some­one Else’s Son, and Savior’s Day, which Kirkus select­ed as a Best Book of 2013. He stud­ied cre­ative writ­ing at Colum­bia University’s Grad­u­ate School and has advanced degrees from both NYU and Columbia.