Volume 13: A Path to Each Other (2022)

Theresa Jarosz Alberti is a writer, blogger, artist, and creator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She writes all kinds of things, including seven books of children’s nonfiction and a book of poetry. You can find her online at penandmoon.com.

Marc Anderson is a Saint Paul percussionist, poet, composer, Zen priest, grandfather, teacher, part-time nomad, full-time enthusiast.

Paul Bard is a fourth-generation Saint Paulite. He has only ever lived in two ZIP codes, and they are contiguous.

Heidi Barr is committed to cultivating ways of being that are life-giving and sustainable for people, communities, and the planet. Co-founder of 12 Tiny Things (12TinyThings.com), she works as a wellness coach, holds a master’s degree in faith and health min- istries, and partners with organic farms and yoga teachers to offer retreat experiences. She lives with her husband and daughter and they tend a large vegetable garden, explore nature, and do their best to live simply. Visit her at heidibarr.com.

Hannah Boehme is a queer illustrator and writer, born and raised in Saint Paul. She is an MCAD alum whose previous work includes portraiture for the Ramsey County Historical Society. Her art specializes in bright, colorful scenes and warm moments shared between characters. More of her work can be found @hboehme01 on Instagram or at hannahboehme.com.

Jim Bour lives and plays out his good fortune in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He loves to write and tell stories, walk and cycle the neighborhoods, and work to make where he lives a safe, inviting, and just place.

Amanda Boyle is a first-generation student and currently has an Undecided major. Writing has always been an outlet for her life. With immigrant family members and parents, she has plenty of stories with a foundation of culture.

Roger Brezina has written over 9,900 poems. Some are factual, some fictitious, some historical, some hysterical. Raised on a farm in south-central Minnesota, he graduated from college after complicating his mind. He now resides on five acres of the old homestead trying to uncomplicate his mind.

Ty Chapman is a Twin Cities–based puppeteer, poet, curator, and storyteller. His upcoming works include writing a children’s book through the Loft’s Mirrors and Windows program and creating a one-man shadow puppet and marionette show for Puppet Lab.

Lequetta Diggs is a resident of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, who enjoys reading, painting with watercolors, promoting child- hood and adult literacy, and campaigning for equity and social justice. She is an active member of the Baha’i Faith and The Cultural Wellness Center’s Elder Coaching Program, as well as the proud mother of twins, Martin and Michael, and four beautiful, gifted grandchildren.

Anne Dimock is a narrative writer working in fiction and creative nonfiction. Her memoir, Humble Pie—Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust, was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. She has received awards, fellowships, and residencies for her narrative writing and has been published in print and online journals. Her new book, Against the Grain, will be published in November 2022 by Woodhall Press.

Louis DiSanto worked as a keeper at Saint Paul’s Como Zoo for over twenty years before retiring in 2005. He was also a photographer/reporter for the weekly Saint Paul Sun and an information specialist for the City of Saint Paul. His interests include classical music, sports, writing children’s stories, and getting together with friends. Louis is honored to be one of the winners of the 2011 Saint Paul Sidewalk Poetry Contest.

Norita Dittberner-Jax has published five collections of poetry, most recently Crossing the Waters (Nodin Press, 2017), winner of the Midwest Book Award in Poetry, and Now I Live Among Old Trees (Nodin Press, 2020). Norita has won other awards for her work, including several nominations for the Pushcart Prize. A poetry editor for Red Bird Chapbooks, she lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Aria Dominguez was born and grew up in Saint Paul and now lives in Minneapolis with her son. Though she has not lived in Saint Paul for a long time, it is the thread forming the fabric of so many memories, and the foundation of who she became.

Sara Dovre Wudali is a writer and editor from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction, Sweet, North Dakota Quarterly, and Saint Paul Almanac, and has appeared as part of a public art project in Mankato, Minnesota.

Alice Owen Duggan ’s poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry East, and elsewhere, as well as in a chapbook, A Brittle Thing, and an anthology, Home, from Holy Cow! Press. She’s interested in dailiness, in plain speech, in the timbre of voices in telling stories.

Bergen Christoffer Eibs is a writer who received a bachelor’s degree in English from St. Catherine University in May 2021. She hopes to publish her own novels and other short stories in the future. When she’s not working on her writing, she is collecting enamel pins or spending time with her fiancé.

Anna Marie Ettel , born in Saint Paul in 1946, lived almost all her life within five miles of downtown Saint Paul. She is a retired corporate attorney, but now calls herself a community builder. She says that’s a lot more fun.

Marsha Foss enjoys Saint Paul’s vibrant writing community. A retired educator, she divides her time between Minnesota and Maryland. When in her Como Park neighborhood, she has the fun of living near young grandsons. Her work has been published online and in print journals, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Annette Gagliardi has published poetry in Jitter Press, Poetry Quarterly, Dreamers Creative Writing and their year one anthology,
Down in the Dirt Magazine, and Poetic Bond VIII and IX. Annette is a contributor and co-editor of Upon Waking: 58 Voices Speaking Out from the Shadow of Abuse. She teaches poetry at a nearby elementary school as a volunteer. She has won two national and six state awards for her poetry.

Michael K. Gause was born in Tennessee while The Beatles were still together. He visited Minnesota in 1995 and never went back. His writing can be found in print and online. His piece “The Sentinel” was published in Volume 2 of Saint Paul Almanac.

Casey Gordon has been in the Twin Cities for three years and is in her first year with Saint Paul Almanac. She has taught literature, writing, and changemaking at the City University of New York and the University of St. Thomas. She loves music and “Minnesota Experience” on TPT and has finally learned how to dress for the weather.

Catherine Boebel Grotenhuis and her husband, Steve, raised their blended family in Saint Paul and help with their local grandchildren. She worked at Women’s Advocates, the Farming- ton Senior Center, and the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Youth Science Center. Raised on Chicago’s South Side, she graduated from Carleton College and has been published in several online publications. Her nonfiction manuscript is seeking publication.

Isadora Gruye is a writer and photographer living in Minnesota. She believes in cartographers and beekeepers but has little need for maps or honey. She is the editor and co-founder of Nice Cage literary magazine, and her work has appeared in many places in the tactile and virtual world. Her poetry collection The Ladies’ Guide to the Apocalypse was published in October 2019.

Tara Flaherty Guy is a contributing writer at Saint Paul Publishing Company, and a graduate of the creative writing program at
Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Born and raised in Saint Paul, she is a devotee of both the Saintly City and the beloved Almanac named for it.

Carla Hagen lives, writes, and bicycles in Saint Paul, where she is revising her second novel. She loves open-water swimming, good coffee, and languages of all kinds.

Margaret Hasse is a poet, teacher, and editor of other poets’ work. Her fifth book of poetry, Between Us, won the poetry prize of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.

Judy Hawkinson lives in Saint Paul, where she and her husband raised their three children. She enjoys writing, photography, hiking, and spending time with her family and friends.

Lisa Higgs ’ third chapbook, Earthen Bound, was published by Red Bird Chapbooks in February 2019. Her poems have been published widely, and her reviews and interviews can be found at Poetry Foundation, Kenyon Review, and The Adroit Journal.

Jordan Hirsch wishes she could spend all of her time watching Star Trek, but she also enjoys cooking, reading, writing, and running, so she spends time doing that too. Originally from southern Illinois, she lives in the Como Park neighborhood with her husband and their two perfect cats.

Terrance Hobson II is a self-deprecating Minnesotan with ties to Mississippi. He is an aspiring music producer who attended the High School for Recording Arts in Saint Paul. New to poetry, he draws on personal experience and finds relief in writing what he doesn’t talk about.

Alia Jeraj is a vocalist, writer, and educator in the Twin Cities. She has performed with groups including Mixed Precipitation, Artemis, and Nanilo. Her bylines include POLLEN, Twin Cities Daily Planet, and American Craft. By day she tutors math at a local high school.

Andrea E. Johnson grew up in West Saint Paul. She earned bachelors degrees in piano and nursing at the University of Minnesota and an M.Ed. degree from the University of St. Thomas. After a long career, primarily in public health, she picked up writing poetry again. She lives in Lake Elmo.

David Ralph Johnson resides in Lowertown Saint Paul with his wife, Theresa. Together they write, paint, and photograph the city from their tiny abode overlooking Mears Park.

Patsy Kahmann lives in Minneapolis but has called many places home. Born in Kansas City, she and her family came to live on a farm near Granite Falls, Minnesota, in 1962. Her memoir, House of Kahmanns, is about forged and fractured family bonds. Her 2014 story was chosen for the ten-year retrospective. She is retired from the University of Minnesota, where she worked with student athletes and coaches in the women’s basketball program.

Lisa Kaste has been living in Saint Paul since 2010. She is a Native American mother, grandmother, and friend to many. Her hobbies include reading, watching documentaries, and going to music festivals. She works as a teaching assistant at the American Indian Magnet School in Saint Paul and as a homeless advocate during evenings and weekends at two shelters in Minneapolis.

Sarah Koper writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her poem “Moonwalker” is engraved on a sculpture located at St. Cloud State University. “Baseball Bits #2” was published in A View from the Loft (2001). “Searching for Answers” was selected for Hazelden’s Conference on Arts and Healing. Her first book is Potholes: A Collection of Poems, Quotes & Cameos (2008), which is available at the-liberal-prude.com. Her work has previously appeared in Saint Paul Almanac.

Michel Steven Krug is a Minneapolis poet, fiction writer, and former print journalist from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. He’s the managing editor for Poets Reading the News literary.

Thomas LaBlanc is a Dakota artist who lives in Saint Paul. He contributes to a world where we use creativity and options other than war, racism, classism, and exploitation to solve the problems that we all share by just being alive.

Betsy Leach has been living and writing in Saint Paul since her last year of junior high school. She has worked in higher education and as a community organizer on Saint Paul’s East Side for most of her adult life.

Diana Leaskas was born and raised and still lives in Saint Paul. She grew up in the Summit-University neighborhood beginning in 1977 and went to Central High School. She is married with two adult children and three cats. She has loved books and stories since she was two years old, and she began writing stories in the third grade. She LOVES creative writing and has a passion for it.

Arleta Little is a writer and culture worker. Her recent literary work has appeared in multiple publications, including We Are Meant to Rise, Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota, Saint Paul Almanac, Black Literacy Matters, and This Was 2020. Her essay “Life and Death in the North Star State” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is a co-author along with Josie Johnson and Carolyn Holbrook of Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir about the life of Josie Johnson. Arleta serves as the executive director for the Loft Literary Center.

Valerie Little studied creative writing and music at Pennsylvania State University. She has been published in Kalliope, Aperture, Sheila-Na-Gig, and a 2019 poetry anthology by Duck Lake Books. Professionally, she is a violist and orchestra librarian with the Minnesota Orchestra.

Lilia Lobough is a senior at St. Catherine University, studying English and philosophy. One of her special talents is answering the question “So what are you going to do with that degree?” You can often find her running to catch a bus or buying too much sparkling water for her own good. Lilia lives with three wonderful roommates and, tragically, no dogs.

Dr. Margaret Ponder Lovejoy, EdD , a lifelong resident of the Rondo neighborhood, was taught by community elders to care for and love one another. This lesson has always lived in her heart: to care for the community. She has lived most of her life in the Rondo neighborhood and lives on the same property her parents bought before she was born.

Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of twenty-two books, including Flannelwood (Red Hen Press) and Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman (Squares & Rebels). He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sara Martin lives in Saint Paul with her husband, two sons, and their rescue mutt. When she’s not spending time with her family or trying to sneak in writing time, she works as a public interest attorney. Her essays have appeared in Adoptive Families magazine and online in the Peacock Journal, Mothers Always Write, and the Star Tribune’s Cribsheet blog.

Larry D. McKenzie (“Slim”) Bread and buttered in Chicago. Salt and peppered in the Twin Cities. He has been writing for more than forty years and currently working on The Adventures of Saladeen.

David Mendez is a writer from Saint Paul’s West Side working in education and in the community. He draws upon his blue-collar roots and Chicano experience in his works. He hopes to inspire others to take up the pen and share their stories.

John Minczeski ’s poems have appeared in several previous editions of Almanac. He lives half a block from the border but spent almost thirty years living in the Lex-Ham neighborhood of Saint Paul.

Nora Murphy is a fifth-generation Irish Minnesotan born in Imniza Ska almost sixty years ago. She is a mother, daughter, and appreciator of the river. Her latest book, White Birch, Red Hawthorn, explores her family’s role in the genocide of Native nations in Minnesota and suggests pathways for healing.

Aarohi Narain is originally from New Delhi, India, and graduated from Macalester College in 2018. In her writing, she most enjoys covering food, arts, travel, and identity. She is currently based in Hong Kong, where she teaches English at an under-resourced youth college. Learn more at aarohinarain.com.

Rebecca Nelson works at East Side Elders, helping seniors stay in their homes as long as they are able to. She also serves on the boards of the Dayton’s Bluff and Payne-Phalen community councils, the Payne Arcade Business Association, the American Indian Family Center, and the East Side Neighborhood Development Company, and is president of the East Side Lions Club. The East Side of Saint Paul is her passion.

Loren Niemi has spent forty years creating, collecting, perform- ing, and teaching stories that matter. He is a published poet whose works include a chapbook, Coyote Flies Coach, and selections in the Poets Speak anthologies Water, Walls, and Survival. In 2019, Moonfire Publishing released his collection of ghost stories, What Haunts Us.

Catherine Ayano Nixon writes and sings songs about love, relationships, and life on earth, and also writes about healing the self through meditation and movement. She writes: “These days, my writing is often accompanied by one of my paintings.”

Yara Omer is an educator. She works and lives in the Twin Cities. Yara writes in English and in Arabic.

Marjorie Otto worked for four years as a reporter and editor at Lillie Suburban Newspapers covering the East Side of Saint Paul. She says, “It was an honor to share the diverse stories of an original and tight-knit series of neighborhoods.” Outside of writing, she loves being outdoors. She is a beekeeper, a paddler of rivers, and a hiker.

Regan Byrne Palmer lives in Minneapolis but grew up in Saint Paul. She co-founded and edited Turtle Quarterly, a literary magazine, and was a preliminary judge for the 31st Annual Minnesota Book Awards.

DeAnne L Parks is a painter, sculptor, writer, and speaker who builds the occasional giant puppet. Her work is published and collected internationally. She resides in Saint Paul’s West End with her husband, their dog, and a ridiculous number of garter snakes.

Heidi Fettig Parton is a wife, mother, and writer living in Stillwater, Minnesota. She received an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University. Her writing can be found in many publications, including ENTROPY, Multiplicity Magazine, The Manifest- Station, and the Her Path Forward anthology. Find her online at heidifettigparton.com.

Joshua Preston is a writer and historian whose work has appeared in Minnesota History, Middle West Review, Popshot Quarterly, and elsewhere. You can find him online at JPPreston.com.

James Silas Rogers is a poet and essayist in Saint Paul. He’s the author of a collection of poems, The Collector of Shadows (2019); a book about cemeteries, Northern Orchards (2014); and many notable essays.

Karen Sandberg lives in Minneapolis. Her mother grew up in Saint Paul on Goodrich Avenue, where she lived with her grandparents and every day watched her grandfather, the local doctor, drive off in his horse-drawn buggy to attend the sick and often the Little Sisters of the Poor, near their house. Karen has been published in Main Street Rag, Vita Brevis, and Freshwater Literary Journal.

Heidi Schallberg is an urban planner, writer, and walker. She wants you to calmly stop for people crossing the street when you are driving.

SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE (Adam Napoli-Rangel) has done years of youth work through hip-hop and spoken word dealing with social justice, identity, and community engagement issues; has performed at countless venues and festivals; and spoken at and facilitated workshops at various social justice conferences and retreats. SEE MORE aims to inspire and uplift through meditations on community, history, and the expression of pure imagination.

Julia Klatt Singer is the poet in residence at Grace Nursery School. She is the co-author of Twelve Branches: Stories from Saint Paul and author of four books of poetry. Her most recent, Elemental, has audio poems at OpenKIM (openkim.org). She’s co-written songs with composers Craig Carnahan, Jocelyn Hagen, and Tim Takach.

George Slade is a Saint Paul native and a Twin Citizen, and his daughters were both born in Saint Paul too. He is into photography. His father’s Alzheimer’s has taken his family down unforeseen and unforeseeable paths.

Annette Marie Smith is an American author and poet, writing beauty in a sometime wilderness. Her books of poetry and short stories have been featured in the reading room of Shakespeare and Company bookstore, Paris, France. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart prize and her work has ridden the trains and buses of Minnesota as broadsides through a Mcknight Foundation grant. Published internationally, her work has been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Cherokee script, and included in The Irish Poetry Reading Archive at UCD Library. She is currently working on her first literary novel. Find out more at annettemariesmith.com

Min Soe San , as a refugee from Burma, has gone through a profound life experience, which he interprets into poems. He led community classes by teaching Karen/Burmese, despite the noises of rifle fire. He barely escaped the militants after a house arrest in the village and somehow reached the Thai-Burma border. His family eventually arrived in Minnesota. During the long Minnesota winters, he would write down his poems in his notebooks, which he later transferred to a donated computer. Some he lost and some still remain.

Dr. Gabriela Spears-Rico , Mexican Indigenous (Pirinda and P’urhépecha) and Chicana scholar and poet, grew up in trailer parks and labor camps following the migrant farmworker trail along the American West Coast. She is a Stanford alumna and received a PhD from UC Berkeley. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies including Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Poesía mexicana en la frontera norte, Ethnic Studies Review, Feminist Anthropology, and Chiricú Journal: Latino Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. In 2021, she was named a McKnight Land Grant Professor by the University of Minnesota.

Debra Stone writes short stories, poetry, and essays. She lives in Robbinsdale with her husband and their German boxer, Ziggy. Currently she is writing a novel.

Elizabeth Tannen is a writer, organizer, fundraiser, and educator based in Minneapolis. Her poems and essays have appeared in a range of publications, including Copper Nickel, Front Porch Review, PANK, Southern Humanities Review, The Rumpus, Salon, and elsewhere. Her manuscript Notes on Distance was one of five finalists for Milkweed’s Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry in 2018.

Lee Colin Thomas lives and writes in the Twin Cities. His poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Salamander, Narrative, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Pilgrimage, Water~Stone Review, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. Find him online at leecolinthomas.net.

Mary Turck has published extensively as a journalist after working in a variety of jobs ranging from gym teacher to attorney. Her literary and journalistic blogs can be found at maryturck.com.

Dr. Artika R. Tyner is a passionate educator, poet, author, sought-after speaker, and advocate for justice. She is a prolific, award-winning author of adults’ and children’s books that include Amazing Africa: A to Z and The Inclusive Leader: Taking Intentional Action for Justice and Equity. In furtherance of her philanthropic efforts, she created Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute, a nonprofit organization committed to promoting literacy and diversity in books.

Beth L. Voigt was born outside of Chicago, but Saint Paul has always been home. This is where her heart is and her family is, and as long as they are here, she will be here, writing about them. She has published essays in local and national publications, including Saint Paul Almanac, Christian Science Monitor, Midwest Home, Minnesota Moments, Talking Stick, and Parenting.

Miriam Weinstein ’s chapbook, Twenty Ways of Looking, was published in 2017. Her poetry appears in the anthologies The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home, Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands, and The Little Book of Abundance, and in several journals. She holds two master of education degrees from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Winnipeg.

Clarence White is a writer, editor, typewriter poet, curator, and arts administrator. His publications are included in several editions of Saint Paul Almanac, Suisun Valley Review, Public Art Review, and Martin Lake Journal, and his essay “Smart Enough for Ford” appears in the anthology Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. He was the co-curator of the 2016 and 2017 Banfill-Locke Reading Series and Silverwood Park’s 2014 Art on Foot. He is a past Givens Foundation Retreat Fellow. Currently, Clarence is the associate director of the East Side Freedom Library and lives in Saint Paul.

Mae Whitney is a student moonlighting as a server. She has worked in restaurants for five years and has been carving away on projects and her education in her spare time.

Diane Wilson , a Dakota writer, has published a memoir, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, which won a 2006 Minnesota Book Award and appeared in the 2012 One Minneapolis, One Read program, and Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life. She was a 2013 Bush Fellow and 2018 AARP/Pollen Fifty Over Fifty honoree. Diane’s latest novel, The Seed Keeper, won the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story.

Tanaǧidaŋ To Wiŋ tara perron is a Dakota and Ojibwe mother who grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She studied Dakota language and culture at Metro State University. She is the author of Takoza: Walks with the Blue Moon Girl, Animals of Khéya Wíta, and Animals of Nimaamaa-Aki. Tara is inspired by the loving hearts of her sons; she is a creator and plant medicine enthusiast, and she believes in the healing power of storytelling.

Dawn Wing is a librarian, multidisciplinary artist, and writer with interests in poetry, paper arts, painting, printmaking, sculpture, zines, comics, and collage. She enjoys creative experimentation with mixed media. Dawn is also a recipient of the 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board’s Creative Support for Individuals grant to publish her next book, Tien Fu Wu: Freedom Warrior. Originally from New York City, Dawn has been a resident of Saint Paul since 2018.

Aron Woldeslassie is a local stand-up, writer, and editor. You can find his work in Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, The Nordly, Minnesota Playlist, Diaphora Media, and many comedy clubs across the Twin Cities. When Aron isn’t directly making art, he can be found reading, biking, or baking.

Chong Yang was born to Hmong farmers and artists in Luang Prabang, Laos. Her family immigrated to Saint Paul in 1980, where she lived with her mom, Bai Vang, and siblings Yeng and Koua. Chong received her master’s from the University of Minnesota College of Education and teaches high school English language arts in Saint Paul, where she lives. Chong has three wonderful daughters, Phaa-Der, Asha, and Kaia.

Mee Yang earned her master’s in creative nonfiction from Hamline University. Her background is in language arts. She taught Hmong language at a charter school in Saint Paul for three years.

James Zimmerman lives in the West Seventh neighborhood of Saint Paul with his three children. His writings have appeared in several issues of Saint Paul Almanac. He is the author of the book Deliverance at Hand! The Redemption of a Devout Jehovah’s Witness.

Kyra Zimmerman grew up in Minnesota and has been living in Saint Paul for four years. They are a University of Minnesota and Hamline alumni and currently a science teacher in Saint Paul. When not teaching, they enjoy aerial arts and adopting ferrets.

Casey Gordon has been in the Twin Cities for three years and is in her first year with Saint Paul Almanac. She has taught literature, writing, and changemaking at the City University of New York and the University of St. Thomas. She loves music and “Minnesota Experience” on TPT and has finally learned how to dress for the weather.

Alia Jeraj is a vocalist, writer, and educator in the Twin Cities. She has performed with groups including Mixed Precipitation, Artemis, and Nanilo. Her bylines include POLLEN, Twin Cities Daily Planet, and American Craft. By day she tutors math at a local high school.

Marjorie Otto worked for four years as a reporter and editor at Lillie Suburban Newspapers covering the East Side of Saint Paul. She says, “It was an honor to share the diverse stories of an original and tight-knit series of neighborhoods.” Outside of writing, she loves being outdoors. She is a beekeeper, a paddler of rivers, and a hiker.

Aron Woldeslassie is a local stand-up, writer, and editor. You can find his work in Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, The Nordly, Minnesota Playlist, Diaphora Media, and many comedy clubs across the Twin Cities. When Aron isn’t directly making art, he can be found reading, biking, or baking.

Lisa Yankton is a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota and a community organizer, educator, writer, and mother. At night she can be found stargazing. Instead of wishing on a star, she wishes she knew their names.