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Connie Wanek
Connie Wanek lived for over a quarter century in Duluth, Minnesota. She is the author of 10 books, including Rival Gardens: New and Selected...
Skye Smith
Skye Smith has retired from a career in mechanical engineering. In that profession he used CAD to design complex machines. The heightened visualization in...
Peg Guilfoyle
Writer and speaker Peg Guilfoyle’s latest book is An Eye for Joy: Noticing the Good World Everywhere. She is the originator and writer of...
Kristi Belcamino
Kristi Belcamino is a USA Today bestselling crime writer, chess fanatic, and newspaper crime reporter. Her gritty, glamorous thrillers—like the Gia Santella and Queen...
Dave Kenney
Dave Kenney is the author of nearly two dozen books, all historical non-fiction, covering topics ranging from World War II to the movie industry....
Anne-Marie Erickson
Anne-Marie Erickson was born in the western Minnesota prairie town of Benson. Her journalism, poetry, essays, and book reviews have appeared in regional publications....
Debra J. Stone
Debra J. Stone is a Jerome Hill Arts Fellow in Literature 2023-25, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant recipient, and The Loft Mirrors and...
Jessica Litman
Jessica Litman, also known as “The Organized Mama,” is a published author and home organization expert whose work has been featured on Today.com, People.com,...
H.M. Bouwman
H.M. Bouwman is the author of middle grade fantasy novels including A Crack in the Sea and A Tear in the Ocean, as well as the Owen and Eleanor early chapter books. She lives in Saint Paul and teaches at the University of St. Thomas. Bouwman loves to speak to kids and adults about the…
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David Breeden
Rev. David Breeden, Ph.D. is a poet, practical theologian, and former Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, a historically Humanist congregation. A long-time public intellectual, he holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Ph.D. from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, and an M.Div. from Meadville…
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Judith F. Brenner
Judith F. Brenner is an author and editor. Her debut novel, The Moments Between Dreams, won four awards, including the 2022 National Indie Excellence Award and 2023 IBPA’s Benjamin Franklin Fiction Silver Award. She’s a short story contributor to Minnesota Stories anthology. Brenner is the managing editor and publisher of Sharpeners Report. She instructs writing…
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Greg Brick
Greg Brick, Ph.D., was employed as a hydrogeologist and has taught geology at local colleges and universities. He has published more than 200 articles about caves and was the recipient of the 2005 Cave History Award from the National Speleological Society. His book, Subterranean Twin Cities, won an award from the American Institute of Architects…
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A.J. Briscoe
A.J. Briscoe is an author, entrepreneur, and founder of the non-profit community literacy initiative “To Succeed You Must Read.” His mission is to assist in raising the literacy levels in underserved communities. Briscoe has established strategic partnerships with various schools, businesses, and community pillars in an effort to impact the lives of our young people…
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Michael Brodkorb
Michael Brodkorb has spent his professional career working in politics, communications, and public relations. He is currently a columnist for MinnPost and previously worked as a special correspondent for the Star Tribune. He is a lifelong resident of Minnesota.
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Wendy Brown-Baez
Wendy Brown-Báez is the author of the inspirational guidebook for writers and writing instructors Heart on the Page: A Portable Writing Workshop, a novel Catch a Dream, and poetry collection Ceremonies of the Spirit. Her poetry and prose appear widely in literary journals and anthologies, such as Borderlands, The Litchfield Review, Mizna, Wising Up Press,…
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Steve Buechler
Steve Buechler had a 31-year career as a professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he taught sociology and published on women’s movements, critical sociology, and social movement theory. On the eve of his retirement, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. He was successfully treated with chemotherapy, radiation, and a double cord blood stem…
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Lisa Bullard
Lisa Bullard is the author of more than 100 books for young readers. Her offerings range from picture books to nonfiction titles to a middle grade mystery. Her novel Turn Left at the Cow was a Maud Hart Lovelace Award nominee for the 2017-2018 school year. Bullard enjoys doing school visits and is a long-time…
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Frank Bures
Frank Bures is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, Outside, and other publications. He is the author of Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories and The Geography of Madness, which was selected by Newsweek as one of the best…
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