Craig Lancaster is a novelist and playwright who lives in Billings, Montana. He is the author of 10 novels, including his most recent, Northward Dreams (2024). His work, largely set in the contemporary American West, has won two High Plains Book Awards (And It Will Be a Beautiful Life, in 2022, and 600 Hours of Edward, 2010) and assorted international, national, and regional writing awards and has been translated widely. His first full-length play, Straight On To Stardust, received a world premiere staging by Yellowstone Repertory Theatre in 2023.