Angela Pelster’s essay collection Limber won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. Her children’s book The Curious Adventures of India Sophia won the Golden Eagle Children’s Choice Award. Her essays have appeared in Agni, Orion, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, Tin House, Granta, and The Kenyon Review. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, and she’s been a McKnight Fellow, a Bread Loaf Fellow, and a Minnesota State Arts Board grantee. She’s the Director of the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University and the founder and director of Writers Go to the Movies.