Elliott Foster is the author of Whispering Pines, a 2016 Indie Next Finalist for Best Fiction. His latest novels involve a trilogy: Panic River (2019), Reckoning Waves (2022), and Destiny Springs (coming March 2023). Reckoning Waves won Best Gay Fiction at the 2022 San Francisco Book Festival. He is also the co-author of the memoir Retrieving Isaac & Jason, written with his father Ken Flies. Elliott's poems, essays and short stories have been published in journals worldwide.