Minnesota Authors

Matthew Batt’s new book “The Last Supper Club” takes us behind the scenes of restaurants and waiting tables.

“A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids” reunites us with the people of Mozhay Point Ojibwe Reservation as past converges with present and both the land and the people reveal their secrets.

“Power & Light” marks novelist Will Weaver’s return to the themes of “Red Earth, White Earth” and “Sweet Land.”

Duluth writer John Teschner's new thriller is a timely story about a fight over ancestral land in Hawaii.

"The Taken Ones" has detectives searching for connections between a woman found buried alive and two girls who vanished decades ago in a small Minnesota town.

"Rez Ball" is based on writer Byron Graves' adolescence while growing up and playing basketball on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.

Professor Jason Fitger returns and misadventures abound in Julie Schumacher's new novel "The English Experience."

Writer Barry Babcock credits the Bonga family, descendants of an African slave, as being an important part of Northern Minnesota's history.

Shannon Gibney's "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight" is a light-hearted story for everyone, but has a special message for diasporic families.

Minnesota writer and motivational speaker Shelly Breen is the author of the "Shelly Bean, the Sports Queen" series and will be a keynote speaker at Bemidji State University’s Diverse Texts Conference in July.