Midnight River - Paperback

by Laura L. Hansen (Author)

Selected as winner of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies 2015 Stevens Manuscript Competition by Bruce Dethlefsen, Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2011-2012).

Author Biography

Laura L. Hansen is a graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. She worked in Administrative Management for twelve years followed by twenty years as a bookseller. Laura is the author of three chapbooks; Diving the Drop-off, Why I Keep Rabbits and Writing from the Milkhouse. Laura's writing has appeared in regional literary journals and magazines as well as in What the Heart Knows (Holy Cow Press) and Fog and Woodsmoke (Lost Hills Books). Her poems have aired on The Story with Dick Gordon (National Public Radio), The Beat (KAXE Radio) and Lakeland Public Television. Hansen served on the Board of Great River Arts, The Five Wings Arts Council and is the founder of the Great River Writers and has twice been awarded a FWAC Individual Artist Grant. She lives and works in Little Falls, MN.