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Nate Patrin

Nate Patrin is a St. Paul resident and cultural critic specializing in popular music. Since the late 1990s, his work has appeared in sites...
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Jeremy Norton

Jeremy Norton is a proud Washington, DC native. He’s received degrees from two universities in the Boston area despite a thorny relationship with the...
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Jody Lulich

Jody Lulich is a professor of veterinary internal medicine at the University of Minnesota. He is a renowned educator and clinician, has published over...
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Mary Jo Hoffman

Mary Jo Hoffman is an artist and photographer known for her work in capturing the beauty of nature. She is recognized for her project...
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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...
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Daniel J. Blackburn

Daniel Blackburn is an author, speaker, executive coach, and yoga therapist. He was an award-winning leader and executive in the natural foods industry for...
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Ayaan Adan

Ayaan Adan is a UX designer, organizer, and author of Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women. She is a graduate of the University...
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Nancy Pirri

Nancy Schumacher writes under the pseudonyms, Nancy Pirri (romance) and Natasha Perry (erotic romance). She is the owner-publisher of the small press, Melange Books,...
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Andrea Gilats

Andrea Gilats, Ph.D., is a writer, educator, artist, and former yoga teacher who has published two highly praised books, After Effects: A Memoir of...
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Hampton Smith

Hampton Smith is an independent researcher and writer with a specialty in mid-19th century America and Minnesota History. He was a reference librarian for...

Lyda Morehouse

Lyda Morehouse leads a double life. By day, she’s a mild-mannered science fiction author of the Shamus and Philip K. Dick award-winning AngeLINK series. By night, she’s the bestselling paranormal romance and urban fantasy writer, Tate Hallaway. She’s written and published more than a dozen novels (five as Lyda and nine as Tate), and together…
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Mark Neužil

Mark Neužil (pronounced NEW-zhul) is professor of journalism at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and the author, co-author, or editor of eight books. He received a B.A. in journalism and political science from Iowa State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Neužil is a frequent writer and…
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Jeremy Norton

Jeremy Norton is a proud Washington, DC native. He’s received degrees from two universities in the Boston area despite a thorny relationship with the realm. He has lived in the Colorado mountains, the Tennessee mountains, the Minnesota not-mountains. He taught middle- and high-school literature at the end of the last century and taught creative writing…
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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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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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Nate Patrin

Nate Patrin is a St. Paul resident and cultural critic specializing in popular music. Since the late 1990s, his work has appeared in sites and publications including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Spin, Red Bull Music Academy, The Shfl, and City Pages. He is the author of two books: Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop and…
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David M. Perry

David M. Perry is a historian and journalist. He’s a columnist for Pacific Standard, writing about health justice and higher education. He covers history, disability, and politics for outlets like CNN, Washington Post, The Nation, and Medium.
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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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Nancy Pirri

Nancy Schumacher writes under the pseudonyms, Nancy Pirri (romance) and Natasha Perry (erotic romance). She is the owner-publisher of the small press, Melange Books, LLC, along with two imprints, Satin Romance and Fire and Ice for Young Adults. Schumacher is a member of Romance Writers of America and is also one of the founders of…
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Carolyn Porter

Carolyn Porter is a graphic designer and self-professed typography geek who designed the award-winning P22 Marcel Script font. The book Marcel’s Letters recounts Porter’s search for information on Marcel Heuzé, the man who penned the letters that were used as the basis for the font. Letters, she would come to learn, that had been mailed…
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