Bio

Angela Pelster is a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellow, judged by Hanif Abdurraqib. Her first essay collection 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 previously appeared in LitHub, Ploughshares, Tin House, Granta, The Kenyon Review, River Teeth and The Gettysburg Review among others. She’s been a Katharine Bakeless Nason Bread Loaf Fellow in nonfiction, a Minnesota State Arts Board grantee, and was an Iowa Arts fellow during her MFA at the University of Iowa. She’s an associate professor at Hamline University, and is currently at work on her new book The Evolution of Fire: Essays in Crisis.