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Scott F. Wolter

Scott Wolter, a forensic geologist, has worked as a petrographer since 1985. In 1990, he founded American Petrographic Services and continues to serve as...
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Court Ludwick

Court Ludwick is the author of These Strange Bodies and the founding editor-in-chief of Broken Antler Magazine. Her writing has been nominated for Best...
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Laura Moher

Laura Moher is a former associate professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her head is full...
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Karen Engstrom

Karen Engstrom writes short stories and historical fiction. The Fox is the first of a trilogy set in 1950’s northern Minnesota. Her short stories...
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Constance Casey

Constance Casey is a Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader Training Program graduate empowered to teach by Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. With an MDiv...
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Michelle Sherman

Dr. Michelle Sherman is a licensed clinical psychologist who has dedicated her career to supporting families dealing with mental illness or trauma/PTSD. She has...
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Mike Mallow

Mike Mallow is an award-winning newspaper producer, photographer, and writer with more than 20 years in the newspaper industry. He is a West Virginia...
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Freeman Ng

Freeman Ng is a former Google software engineer and the author of Bridge Across the Sky (a YA verse novel based on the Chinese...
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Nicole Belle-Isle

Nicole Belle-Isle was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. She has a Master of Education degree and is a licensed teacher in special education...
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Stephanie Mirocha

Stephanie Mirocha grew up climbing trees and exploring the city park across from her childhood home. Her creative expression not only takes form in...

Deborah Lysholm

Deborah Lysholm’s professional career in the performing arts spans more than four decades and includes instructing and performing dance locally and overseas in Milan, Havana, London, Geneva, and Barcelona. In addition to her career in the performing arts, Lysholm is author of the book, Dancing to My Heartbeat: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey from Victim…
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Michael MacBride

Originally from Michigan, Michael MacBride now calls Minnesota home. He has delivered newspapers, worked for UPS, delivered pizzas, done collections at a bank, was a roadie for a country band, and was a grant-writer and funder-researcher for non-profits. He also taught English, Literature, and Humanities courses at universities and colleges in Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio,…
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Catherine Madison

Catherine “Cathy” Madison is a veteran journalist who has served as editor-in-chief of Utne Reader, senior editor at Adweek and Creativity magazines, founding editor of American Advertising, and editor-in-chief of Format Magazine. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she has taught continuing education classes in editing. Madison’s award-winning…
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Kandice Kay Magnan

Kandice Magnan grew up on a small dairy farm in central Minnesota. Surviving domestic violence, raising her four young children as a single mother, and recognizing the destruction her own choices were causing, she discovered Jesus. Allowing Jesus to guide her decisions, she was able to experience a transformed life of victor instead of victim.…
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Michael Allan Mallory

Michael Allan Mallory is the author of The Lost Dragon Murder, which propels Detective Henry Lau into the nebulous work of ancient antiquities. Mallory also is the co-creator of mystery’s first zoologist sleuth, Lavender “Snake” Jones, who appeared in two novels: Death Roll and Killer Instinct. Mallory’s short stories have been published in numerous mystery…
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Mike Mallow

Mike Mallow is an award-winning newspaper producer, photographer, and writer with more than 20 years in the newspaper industry. He is a West Virginia University and Fairmont State University graduate with journalism and graphic design degrees. Mallow has five published novels with an independent press, one of which was named the Appalachian Book of the…
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Brian Malloy

Brian Malloy’s novels have been a Book Sense pick, a New York Times New and Notable title, an Oprah selection for best LGBT books of 2021, an Apple Books best new release selection, a 2021 Publishers Marketplace buzz book, and a Booklist editors’ choice. Other honors include the Minnesota Book Award, the American Library Association’s…
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Thomas Maltman

Thomas Maltman’s essays, poetry, and fiction have been published in many literary journals. He has an MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. His first novel, The Night Birds, won an Alex Award, a Spur Award, and the Friends of American Writers Literary Award. In 2009 the American Library Association chose The Night Birds as an…
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Freya Manfred

Freya Manfred has nine collections of poetry. Her sixth collection, Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle, won the 2009 Midwest Bookseller’s Choice Award for Poetry. Her ninth and most recent collection is Loon in Late November Water. A longtime Midwesterner who has lived on both coasts, her poetry has appeared in over 100…
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Mélina Mangal

Mélina Mangal’s work has been published by Milkweed Editions, Coffee House Press, W.W. Norton, and Carolina Wren Press. She is the author of five biographies for youth, including The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just, winner of the Carter G. Woodson Award. Her latest book, Jayden’s Impossible Garden, won the first Strive/Free…
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