Jacob Wheeler

Author Jacob Wheeler fell in love with Guatemala—the setting for two of his books—while studying Spanish in Quetzaltenango in the Guatemalan highlands. His first book, "Between Light and Shadow" (University of Nebraska Press, 2011), covered Guatemala’s child adoption industry. His second, "Angel of the Garbage Dump" (Mission Point Press, 2022), features Hanley Denning, who founded an educational nonprofit in the slums of the Guatemala City garbage dump.

Wheeler lives in Traverse City, Michigan, with his wife Sarah and children, Nina and Leo. He publishes the Glen Arbor Sun newspaper and works with student journalists at Northwestern Michigan College. His reporting has won awards from Project Censored and the Michigan Press Association. A native of Denmark, he has filed stories from five continents, and his work has appeared in such publications as The Rotarian, Teaching Tolerance, Utne Reader, In These Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Detroit Free Press, and San Francisco Chronicle.

Contact Wheeler at jacobroyalwheeler@gmail.com