The former editor and associate publisher of Fly Rod & Reel Magazine, Paul Guernsey is an award-winning novelist as well as a non-fiction author. He is the author of Beyond Catch & Release: Exploring the Future Of Fly Fishing, and American Ghost, which won the 2018 Maine Book Award in the speculative fiction category. He also wrote the foreword to Ted Williams' book, Something's Fishy: An Angler's Look at Our Distressed Gamefish and Their Waters. Rolling Back the River is his fourth novel. He lives and fishes in Maine.