Jeffrey D. Boldt is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and its School of Law. He received his MFA in Fiction from Augsburg University in Minneapolis in 2019. His short fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in literary journals including those affiliated with the University of California, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Rutgers, UNLV, Clarkson, Stephen F. Austin, Minnesota, SUNY and CUNY. Blue Lake is his first novel, published by River Grove Books.