About

Angela Pelster was born and raised in rural Alberta. Her new essay collection,The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming (Milkweed Editions, 2026) was longlisted for the National Book Foundation's award for Nonfiction. She is a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellow, 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. Her first book, The Curious Adventures of India Sophia, a collection of short stories, won the Golden Eagle Children's Choice award in 2005. 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 beloved garden.