Genre:
Poetry

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Tim Nolan

Tim Nolan is a lawyer and poet living in Minneapolis. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and many other magazines. He has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and the Forward Poetry Prize. Nolan’s three books – The Sound of It, And Then, and The Field, are all…

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Ed Bok Lee

Ed Bok Lee, the son of North and South Korean emigrants, grew up in South Korea, North Dakota, and Minnesota, and was educated on both U.S. coasts as well as Russia, South Korea, and Kazakhstan. Lee is the author of Whorled, winner of a 2012 American Book Award and a Minnesota Book Award. His first…

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Su Smallen Love

Su Love is the author of six collections of poetry, some published as Su Smallen. Her work has been recognized with the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, a Joy Harjo prize, and international publications, fellowships, and residencies from the Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Center, Artist at Pine Needles/St. Croix Watershed Research Station, the Minnesota State Arts Board,…

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Heidi Czerwiec

Heidi Czerwiec is an essayist and poet. She is the author of four chapbooks, the full-length poetry collection Conjoining, and the lyric essay collection Fluid States, winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. She is the editor of North Dakota Is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North Dakota Poets. Her…

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Paula Cisewski

Paula Cisewski’s fourth poetry collection, Quitter, won the Diode Editions Book Prize. She is also the author of The Threatened Everything, Ghost Fargo (Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright), Upon Arrival, and several chapbooks, including the lyric prose Misplaced Sinister. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Jerome Foundation, the 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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Brian Malloy

Brian Malloy’s novels have been a Book Sense pick, a New York Times New and Notable title, an Oprah selection for best LGBT books of 2021, an Apple Books best new release selection, a 2021 Publishers Marketplace buzz book, and a Booklist editors’ choice. Other honors include the Minnesota Book Award, the American Library Association’s…

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Marcie Rendon

Marcie Rendon, is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. Rendon received the McKnight Foundation 2020 Distinguished Artist Award and was listed in the Oprah Daily 2020 list of “31 Native American Authors to Read Right Now.” Girl Gone Missing, Rendon’s second Cash Blackbear mystery series novel, was nominated for the Mystery Writers of America…

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David Mura

David Mura is a poet, memoirist, essayist, novelist, and playwright. He’s written two memoirs, Where the Body Meets Memory and Turning Japanese, which won the Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book. His novel, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award,…

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Kathryn Kysar

Kathryn Kysar is the author of two books of poetry, Dark Lake and Pretend the World and editor of the anthology Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers. She has received fellowships from the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Oberholtzer Foundation, and Write…