The Empty Canoe

Peter Georgas, author of Dark Blues, grew up in Waseca, Minnesota. He earned a BA in journalism from the University of Minnesota. Following a decade of advertising, he joined the staff of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as the museum’s first full time publicist. Later, along with his family, he moved to Austria, where he was Director of the Salzburg Seminar. He and his wife now live in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis.