Writers with Forthcoming Books
Dobby Gibson
Dobby Gibson is the author of Polar, which won the Alice James Award, Skirmish, and It Becomes You, which was shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award. All three books were finalists for the Minnesota Book Award. A new collection, Little Glass Planet, is forthcoming in 2019. Gibson’s poems and essays…
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Linda LeGarde Grover
Linda LeGarde Grover is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe and a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her works reflect her scholarly research on federal policy and American Indian families. Her fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have received the Flannery O’Connor…
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Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang is the author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, winner of the 2009 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir and Readers Choice, and a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Asian Literary Award in Nonfiction. Her second book, The Song Poet,…
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