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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Elizabeth Oness
Elizabeth Oness is a poet and fiction writer who lives on a biodynamic farm in Southeast Minnesota. Her poems and stories have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, The Hudson Review, and other magazines. Her stories have received an O. Henry Prize, a Nelson Algren Award, and the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize.…
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David Oppegaard
David Oppegaard is the author of Claw Heart Mountain, The Town Built on Sorrow, The Firebug of Balrog County, The Suicide Collectors, And the Hills Opened Up, and Wormwood, Nevada. He is also the author of the novella Breakneck Cove. Oppegaard’s work is a blend of horror, literary fiction, science fiction, and dark fantasy. He…
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Bukola Oriola
Bukola Oriola is an international public and motivational speaker, bestselling author, mentor, advocate, entrepreneur, consultant, and member of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. She is an award-winning journalist and a survivor of labor trafficking and domestic violence. Depicting her experiences in two memoirs, she has dedicated her life to helping others by sharing…
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Ben Orlin
Ben Orlin has written four books, including Math with Bad Drawings and Math for English Majors. He describes himself as a “professional apologist for mathematics,” the word “apologist” holding both in the classical sense (an advocate for a worldview) and in the modern sense (someone doing PR for a widely despised client). His writing and…
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Brett Ortler
Brett Ortler is a writer and an editor from just north of the Twin Cities. He is the author of 10 books, including everything from a poetry collection, Lessons of the Dead, to nonfiction books pertaining to fireflies, mosquitoes, and ship watching on the Great Lakes. His essays, poetry, and articles appear widely, including in…
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Anna V. Ostenso Moore
Ostenso Moore always has a stack of picture books to read. She is the author of the picture books Today Is a Baptism Day and We Gather at This Table and has guest blogged for Story Path, Building Faith, and other online faith formation websites. With a master’s in youth ministry and theological education from…
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Rosemond Owens
Rosemond Sarpong Owens loves the Lord, loves people, loves life, and loves to laugh. She is a storyteller with an infectious enthusiasm about life. She attended Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast, Ghana, the University of Ghana, and University of Minnesota. Across the globe, she has developed a rainbow coalition – an amazing tribe…
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Sheila Packa
Sheila Packa is a poet, writer, and teacher with Minnesota and Finnish roots. She has five books of poetry: The Mother Tongue, Echo & Lightning, Cloud Birds, Night Train Red Dust: Poems of the Iron Range, and Surface Displacements. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and has taught creative writing and…
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Laura Packer
Laura Packer knows that the best way to the truth is through a good story. Whether folktale or true, epic or flash, her spoken and written stories captivate audiences. She is committed to helping others find their voice, tell their story, and change the world. Packer is the 2018 MN Grand Slam Champion, Best in…
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Charles Pappas
Charles Pappas is a senior writer at Exhibitor magazine, where he has covered the exposition industry for Exhibitor since 2002 and every world’s fair since 2010. His book, Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords, probes how world expos and trade fairs shaped history. He was a consultant to Expo 2020 (and a regular feature…
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