Anya Achtenberg, creative writing teacher and consultant, has published The Stories of Devil-Girl (a novella), The Stone of Language (poetry), and others, and creates and conducts Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World Workshops.
Kari Fisher teaches at Normandale Community College and was part of the first USA/USSR Young Poets Reading Tour.
Cindra Halm, aunt to August and Zuri, and lover of landscapes as diverse as the Blue Ridge Mountains and Lake Superior, likes to write, dance, act, and play.
Freya Manfred has just won the 2009 Midwest Booksellers’ Award for Poetry for her sixth book of poetry, “Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle” published by Red Dragonfly Press.
Loren Niemi is a storyteller/poet/spoken word artist with an interest in philosophically engaging and emotionally nuanced narratives.
Jules Nyquist experiments with form and sound in poems, plays and memoir, teaches at the Loft Literary Center, has interviewed hundreds of authors on the radio and leads independent writing workshops.
Roslye B. Ultan is an Art Historian specializing in Visual Culture, teaches at the University of Minnesota Master of Liberal Studies and at Hamline University Graduate Liberal Studies Programs; and has developed seminars for U of MN Compleat Scholars Program.
Cheryl Ullyot (host) was a flight attendant for Northwest-Orient airlines in the 1960’s and personally escorted Truman Capote as he disembarked the plane. Her uniform is in the upstairs exhibit of the museum.