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Anne Greenwood Brown grew up in Minnesota and spent her summers on Lake Superior, which is the muse for many of her novels, most especially her trilogy about killer mermaids in the Great Lakes (Lies Beneath, Deep Betrayal, and Promise Bound). Her contemporary novels (Girl Last Seen... Read More →

Carrie Mesrobian is the author of four novels. She has a B.A. in Creative Writing & Hispanic Studies and an MFA in Fiction from the Rainier Writers Workshop of Pacific Lutheran University. She has written essays and poetry for Brain,Child magazine, Calyx, the Minneapolis Star Tribune... Read More →

Jacqueline West is the author of the NYT-bestselling middle grade series THE BOOKS OF ELSEWHERE and the YA novel DREAMERS OFTEN LIE. Her new middle grade fantasy, THE COLLECTORS, will be released by Greenwillow/HarperCollins in October 2018. Her debut, THE SHADOWS (THE BOOKS OF ELSEWHERE... Read More →

Marcie Rendon, enrolled citizen of the White Earth Nation. Rendon’s debut novel, Murder on the Red River (2017 Cinco Puntos Press) is a Spur Finalist in the Western Writers of America 2018 Spur awards-Best Western contemporary Novel category. Two nonfiction children’s books are... Read More →

Margi Preus is the author of the Newbery Honor book Heart of a Samurai and other books for young readers, including the Minnesota Book Award winning West of the Moon, and the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award book The Clue in the Trees, part of the Enchantment Lake mystery series... Read More →

Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), a young adult novel that won the 2016 Minnesota Book Award in Young Peoples' Literature. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, where she teaches... Read More →