About

Angela Pelster's new essay collectionThe Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming is now out with Milkweed Editions, 2026. She is a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellow (chosen by Hanif Abdurraqib), and her first essay collection Limber won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her work has appeared in Agni, Orion, LitHub, Ploughshares, Tin House, Granta and The Kenyon Review among others. She’s the founder and director of Writers Go to the Movies and the director of The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University. She lives in St Paul, Minnesota with her family, two cats and her garden.