Angela Pelster's most recent book Limber won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award for best new book in Nonfiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Tin House, Granta, The Kenyon Review and The Gettysburg Review amongst others. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow, and was recently awarded a fellowship in nonfiction to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant for 2016-17. She lives with her family in St Paul, Minnesota and teaches at Hamline University.