The Friends Blog

Danez Smith, author of Homie: Poems Poetry category, sponsored by Wellington Management, Inc. Each week leading up to the 33rd annual Minnesota Book Awards announcement, we are featuring exclusive interviews with our 36 finalists. You can also watch the authors in conversation with their fellow category finalists here. In a year defined by a pandemic…

Ray Gonzalez, author of Feel Puma: Poems Poetry category, sponsored by Wellington Management, Inc. Each week leading up to the 33rd annual Minnesota Book Awards announcement, we are featuring exclusive interviews with our 36 finalists. You can also watch the authors in conversation with their fellow category finalists here. In a year defined by a…

torrin a. greathouse, author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound Poetry category, sponsored by Wellington Management, Inc. Each week leading up to the 33rd annual Minnesota Book Awards announcement, we are featuring exclusive interviews with our 36 finalists. You can also watch the authors in conversation with their fellow category finalists here. In…

Roy G. Guzmán, author of Catrachos Poetry category, sponsored by Wellington Management, Inc. Each week leading up to the 33rd annual Minnesota Book Awards announcement, we are featuring exclusive interviews with our 36 finalists. You can also watch the authors in conversation with their fellow category finalists here. In a year defined by a pandemic…

Jane Lamm Carroll, author of Daybreak Woman: An Anglo-Dakota Life Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction, sponsored by Bookmobile Craft Digital Each week leading up to the 33rd annual Minnesota Book Awards announcement, we are featuring exclusive interviews with our 36 finalists. You can also watch the authors in conversation with their fellow category finalists…

Virginia Wright-Peterson, author of A Woman’s War, Too: Women at Work During World War II Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction, sponsored by Bookmobile Craft Digital Each week leading up to the 33rd annual Minnesota Book Awards announcement, we are featuring exclusive interviews with our 36 finalists. You can also watch the authors in conversation…