Genre:
Poetry
Helen Weil
Helen Weil is a poet, writer, and educator from the Chicago suburbs who loves ghost stories and love stories in equal measure. She studied Psychology and Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota and went on to earn an M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education. Her poems and short stories have appeared in the Dalliances Anthology,…
J.M. Allen
J.M. Allen has been a resident of Rochester, Minnesota for over 30 years and enjoys writing rhyming poems. His book Real Rhyming Poems is cataloged at over 20 Minnesota libraries – maybe it is available at your local library?
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…
Dralandra Larkins
Dralandra Larkins is a multi-genre writer, three-time award-winning spoken word poet, and the author of Before I Lie. She is a teaching artist at COMPAS and has performed for the NAACP, Button Poetry, Mill City Museum, Minnesota State Capitol, Minnesota Black Business Ball, and the Minnesota Black Authors Expo. Larkins co-edits Cracked Walnut’s Rewilding Hope…
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Leslie Adrienne Miller’s collections of poetry include Y, The Resurrection Trade, Eat Quite Everything You See, Yesterday Had a Man In It, Ungodliness, and Staying Up For Love. Miller’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Harvard Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Crazyhorse. Professor of English at the University of…
Antonia Felix
Antonia Felix, Ed.D., MFA, is a New York Times bestselling author of nonfiction, fiction, drama, and poetry. Her 25 books include several acclaimed political biographies of women leaders, and she has been a guest speaker at many universities and organizations, including the Woman’s National Democratic Club in Washington, DC., and Robert J. Dole Institute of…
Micah Ruelle
Micah Ruelle is a queer poet from America’s Heartland. They hold an MFA from Texas State University. Their first chapbook, Failure to Merge, was published by Finishing Line Press. Their second chapbook, Clean Getaway, was a semi-finalist for the YesYes Books’ Vinyl Chapbook Competition and a finalist for both the Concrete Wolf & Nine Syllables…
Beth Cato
Beth Cato hails from Hanford, California, but currently writes and bakes cookies in Red Wing, Minnesota. She usually has one or two cats in close orbit. A 2015 Nebula finalist, she is the author of the cozy mystery Cheddar Luck Next Time as well as fantasy like A Thousand Recipes for Revenge. Her short stories…
Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a Zambian lawyer, writer, and editor. She is the author of Shipikisha, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies: Poems, Obligations to the Wounded: Stories, unmarked graves, and The Mourning Bird: A Novel. Her creative work has also appeared in adda, Aster(ix), Isele Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Kweli, Overland, on Netflix,…
Sarah Ghazal Ali
Sarah Ghazal Ali is a Pakistani American writer. She is the author of the poetry collection Theophanies, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Minnesota Book Award. She has been awarded The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, and her poems have been published in journals and…