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Laura Ashwood
Laura Ashwood is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of sweet contemporary and historical western romance, and women's fiction. In her novels, Ashwood brings...
Angela Harrelson
Angela Harrelson, George Floyd's aunt, grew up in North Carolina facing racial discrimination. Despite challenges, she excelled in school and pursued higher education. After...
Jennifer Manthey
Jennifer Manthey's first book, The Fight, was winner of the Trio Award and a finalist for the 2024 Minnesota Book Award. Her work has...
Marnie Dachis Marmet
Marnie Dachis Marmet is an author, podcaster, serial entrepreneur, board-certified health coach, and the founder of Zenful Life Coaching, a practice dedicated to helping...
Liz Heinecke
Liz Heinecke thrives at the intersection of science and the arts. With an undergraduate degree in art, a master’s degree in bacteriology, and 10...
Joe Friedrichs
Journalist and writer Joe Friedrichs lives near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. His books, Last Entry Point: Stories of Danger...
Pamela Hill Nettleton
Pamela Hill Nettleton is an award-winning writer, editor, playwright, and author. She holds a doctorate in communication and women’s studies and teaches at the...
Megan Sena
Megan Sena was born and raised in the Midwest and currently resides in Spicer, Minnesota. She loves spending time with her husband Craig and...
Amy Pendino
Amy Pendino, a Minnesota native, is a former middle school English teacher who lives on a small horse farm. Formerly a keyboard player for a local band, she’s also waitressed, worked as a secretary, sang backup for an international star, and horseback rides out West every summer. A member of the Twin Cities chapter of…
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Alan Perry
Alan Perry is a Minnesota poet and editor. His debut chapbook, Clerk of the Dead, was a finalist and honorable mention in the Cathy Smith Bowers Poetry Competition. He is a founder and Co-Managing Editor of the online journal RockPaperPoem, a Senior Poetry Editor for Typehouse magazine, and a Best of the Net nominee. His…
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Gary Eldon Peter
Gary Eldon Peter is the author of two works of fiction: Oranges, a linked short story collection, and the novel The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen, winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Literature and the Acheven Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction. Oranges was a Minnesota Book Award finalist…
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Forrest Peterson
Forrest Peterson is the author of three novels, most recently The Swineherd’s Angel. He received a B.A. in history from Bethel University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and a M.A. in journalism and mass communication from the University of Minnesota. He was a newspaper reporter and editor for 20 years and state of Minnesota public information…
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Antony Plocido
Antony Plocido is a writer from the Twin Cities in Minnesota. He has honed his craft both in the Twin Cities and in Kansas City, MO. Plocido has published four books of poetry: Sucker Punch Wisdom, Aging and Other Side Projects, Felt This So Many Times, and his latest book, The Conflict that Creates. Plocido…
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Susan Power
Susan Power is the author of The Grass Dancer (winner of the 1995 PEN/Hemingway award), Roofwalker, and Sacred Wilderness. She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fellowships include an Iowa Arts Fellowship, James Michener Fellowship,…
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Kaia Solveig Preus
Kaia Preus received her MFA from Hollins University and was a 2019 Author Fellow through the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Her first book, The War Requiem, was a finalist for the 2021 Minnesota Book Award and won the 2018 Essay Press and University of Washington Bothell MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics Book…
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Margi Preus
Margi Preus is the author of the Newbery Honor book Heart of a Samurai and other notable books for young readers, including the Minnesota Book Award-winning West of the Moon and the new Silver Box, part of the Enchantment Lake mystery series. Her books have been honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on many best-of lists,…
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Matt Rasmussen
Matt Rasmussen is the author of Black Aperture, which won the 2013 Walt Whitman Award, the 2014 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His poems have been published in The Literary Review, Gulf Coast, Water~Stone Review, Revolver, Paper Darts, Poets.org, and elsewhere. He received a 2014 Pushcart…
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William Reichard
William Reichard is a writer, editor, and educator. He has published seven poetry collections, most recently, Our Delicate Barricades Downed. Three of his previous collections were finalists for the Minnesota Book Award. Reichard is the editor of the anthology, American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice, and he revised and edited…
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