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Scott F. Wolter
Scott Wolter, a forensic geologist, has worked as a petrographer since 1985. In 1990, he founded American Petrographic Services and continues to serve as...
Minda Gomez
Minda Gomez lives in Minnesota with her husband and three spunky bilingual kids. Their family has created their own brand of "Mexigringo" as they...
Benjamin Klas
Benjamin Klas spends his days falling helplessly through research wormholes from which he emerges knowing about medieval bridge building, German comfort food, blown head...
Court Ludwick
Court Ludwick is the author of These Strange Bodies and the founding editor-in-chief of Broken Antler Magazine. Her writing has been nominated for Best...
Laura Moher
Laura Moher is a former associate professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her head is full...
Karen Engstrom
Karen Engstrom writes short stories and historical fiction. The Fox is the first of a trilogy set in 1950’s northern Minnesota. Her short stories...
Constance Casey
Constance Casey is a Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader Training Program graduate empowered to teach by Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. With an MDiv...
Michelle Sherman
Dr. Michelle Sherman is a licensed clinical psychologist who has dedicated her career to supporting families dealing with mental illness or trauma/PTSD. She has...
Susan Latta
Susan Latta holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Hamline University. She is the author of Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs. She has written on history, biography, and geography topics for AppleSeeds and Faces magazines and contributed freelance projects to Heinemann Leveled…
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Sue Leaf
Sue Leaf, a Minnesota native, was trained as a zoologist and taught environmental science. She writes on natural history and environmental topics from her home on the shores of Pioneer Lake. An avid hiker, paddler, cross-country skier, and bird watcher, Leaf believes that being attuned to nature is good for the soul.
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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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J.M. Lee
Born and raised in the great Minnesota north, J.M. Lee spent his formative years searching for talking animals and believing he could control the weather. After pursuing nerdy interests in comparative film studies, screenwriting, and Shakespeare, he graduated from the University of Minnesota with a much nerdier degree in linguistics with a focus in Japanese…
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Sherry Quan Lee
Sherry Quan Lee, MFA, taught Creative Writing at Saint Catherine University and Metropolitan State University. She is author of Chinese Blackbird, a memoir in verse; How to Write a Suicide Note: Serial Essays that Saved a Woman’s Life; Love Imagined: a Mixed Race Memoir, a 2015 Minnesota Book Award Finalist; How Dare We! Write: a…
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Paul Legler
Paul Legler grew up in rural North Dakota. He was educated at the University of North Dakota, University of Minnesota, and Harvard University. He started his career as a poverty and civil rights attorney, representing migrant farm workers and indigent people throughout Minnesota and North Dakota. He was later appointed by President Clinton to serve…
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Michelle Leon
Michelle Leon is a writer, musician, and teacher for Saint Paul Public Schools. She was the bass player for the influential punk band Babes in Toyland from 1987 to 1992 and again in 1997. Her writing has appeared in City Pages, the music essay compilation The First Time I Heard David Bowie, Saint Paul Almanac,…
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Joi Lewis
Dr. Joi Lewis is a visionary community healer and facilitator of liberation and social justice. As a speaker, author, scholar, and the CEO of Joi Unlimited and President of The Healing Justice Foundation, she’s on a mission to put healing in the hands of anyone, anywhere. Lewis helps individuals, institutions, and communities heal from oppression-induced…
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Matt Lilley
Matt Lilley has published more than 20 children’s books. He has an M.S. in Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota. The focus of his degree was on health and medical writing, with a special emphasis on medical writing for kids. His other favorite writing subjects include exploration and nature. He loves learning…
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Monica Liu
Monica Liu received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California – San Diego. She is currently Assistant Professor of Justice and Society Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Her work examines global internet dating and cross-border marriages between women from China and men from Western countries. Her research has been…
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