Angela Pelster is the author of the essay collection Limber, a winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award for nonfiction. She was a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellow chosen by Hanif Abdurraqib. Her writing has appeared in LitHub, Orion, Ploughshares, Tin House, Granta, The Kenyon Review, and The Gettysburg Review, among others. She’s been a Katherine 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 currently teaches at Hamline University and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Books by Angela Pelster
Crisis is an agent of evolution, and Angela Pelster knows what it means to evolve. As a child, she burned grass to keep weeds at bay and watched tadpoles transform. She basked in the warmth of her father’s love but was burned by his rage, and she witnessed a sudden, unnamable change occur in her older sister after an encounter with a stranger in a white van. In adulthood, she survived the explosion of her marriage, the destruction of her burning home, and a year spent as the single mother of a toddler without a home of their own.