Alex Messenger

Alex Messenger is an author, former wilderness guide, marketing specialist, photographer, and volunteer search-and-rescue operator. His love of adventure, nature, and cultures has taken him all over the globe, but the Northwoods have always been his favorite place. His memoir of surviving being mauled by a grizzly bear, The Twenty-Ninth Day, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Men’s Journal, and Outside. He lives in Duluth, Minnesota. The Ice on the Lake is his debut novel.