![]() She’s the author of The Dragon Keeper and Everything You Want Me To Be, which was a People’s Best New Books Pick and listed in The Wall Street Journal’s Best New Mysteries. Mindy Mejia’s internationally acclaimed heartland noir novels have been translated into over twenty languages. I could keep talking for days and days, but what I love most about libraries is that I’m always better after I’ve spent time inside one. They’re a safe space, a quiet nook, a gateway to answers. They meet toddlers with story time and crafts they meet kids with summer reading challenges and prizes they meet students with study rooms, teens with technology, and voracious readers with overflowing reserve shelves. Libraries meet everyone exactly where they are. How to throw a wicked cross punch-roundhouse combination. I’m researching kickboxing for my next book, and I’ve learned What is something you are good at that few people know about? Offering the physical and mental space to nurture every creative impulse. Then there’s the quiet beauty of the land itself, State offers endless support, inspiration, and opportunity for writers in all To the number of independent bookstores, publishers, grants, and programs, this Provides the resources for writers to flourish. Welcoming place for writers and book creators?Īnd mediocre sports teams? How are we all not crime writers? In all seriousness, though, Minnesota In your experience, what is it about our state that makes it such a Minnesota is often ranked highly as a state that values literature and I went back to school for my MFA in writing at Hamline University and my thesis project, The Dragon Keeper, became my first published novel. It was a bit of a surprise, actually, to learn that not everyone spent their days in elaborate fictional worlds. I’ve always had stories rumbling around my head, narratives that I inhabited more fully than my own life. What brought you to a writing career and how did you become a It’s a story about disappearance and what, if anything, can be reclaimed when someone we love is lost. Leave No Trace pairs the physical wilderness of the Boundary Waters with the emotional wilderness of losing a parent. ![]() Tell us something about your finalist book that you want readers to know. Someone else’s ‘to be read’ books now because of this honor. Out of the finalists, and I’m delighted that my work might be included in Minnesota Book Awards have always meant a lot to me. As a born and bred Minnesotan who is fullyĪware of the array of talented voices we have in our literary landscape, the How does it feel to be a Minnesota Book Award finalist?
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