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Carolyn Holbrook

Carolyn Holbrook is a writer, educator, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (“More Than a Single Story”). She is also co-author with Arleta Little of Dr. Josie Johnson’s memoir, Hope In the Struggle. Holbrook is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. She won the Minnesota Book Awards’ Kay Sexton Award in 2010 and was a 50 over 50 honoree in 2016. She teaches at the Loft Literary Center and other community venues, and at Hamline University.

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Bibliography

We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, co-editor with David Mura (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)

Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify: Essays (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)

Earth Angels (Spout Press, 2019)

Hope in the Struggle by Dr. Josie Johnson, with Carolyn Holbrook and Arleta Little (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journeys: How The St. Paul Companies Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods Program Changed Lives and Communities (OX Press, 2015)

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journeys: How The St. Paul Companies Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods Program Changed Lives and Communities (North Star Press of St. Cloud and Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, 2013)

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