Three authors from New Rivers Press read from their work

The publishing program of Minnesota State University Moorhead comes to the Twin Cities.

Join us at Common Good Books for a sampler of authors from Minnesota’s own New Rivers Press:

• Rachel Coyne, author of Whiskey Heart

• Tim Nolan, author of The Sound of It and And Then

• Madelyne Camrud, author of Oddly Beautiful and This House is Made of Cracks

Rachel Coyne is a novelist and poet who lives in Lindstrom, Minnesota. She is a graduate of the Perpich Center for Arts in Minnesota and Macalester College. Her novel The Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake will be published in 2015.

Tim Nolan has been writing poems for nearly forty years and his work has been published or is forthcoming in national publications including The Gettysburg Review, The Nation, The New Republic, and Ploughshares. Several of his poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac on National Public Radio, and former United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser has selected Nolan’s poems for American Life in Poetry.

Madelyne Camrud teaches creative writing at UND. She is Director of Audience Development at the North Dakota Museum of Art and a talk show host at WDAZ. She lives in Grand Forks, ND, where she is working on her latest collection of poems.

The mission of New Rivers Press at Minnesota State University Moorhead is to publish and promote enduring contemporary literature and to create academic learning opportunities. New Rivers Press acquires, publishes, and markets high quality, imaginative work from emerging and established writers. New Rivers Press also teaches MSUM undergraduate and graduate students the business of publishing, offering the opportunity to earn a Certificate in Publishing at the bachelor’s or master’s level and to work as interns to gain practical experience.