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Interview with Tracy Youngblom about Because We Must (U of Massachusetts Press, 2025) and winner of the Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Interview with Tracy Youngblom about Because We Must (U of Massachusetts Press, 2025) and winner of the Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction

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PAIGE RIEHL: Tracy, first, congratulations on winning the Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction! It’s so well-deserved! Thank you so much for speaking with me about your memoir Because We Must, which chronicles your experiences in the aftermath of a car accident that severely injured your youngest son, Elias. I was so incredibly moved by your writing—the adept ways you write… Read more →

Interview with Mona Susan Power about A Council of Dolls (Mariner, 2023), winner of the Minnesota Book Award in Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

Interview with Mona Susan Power about A Council of Dolls (Mariner, 2023), winner of the Minnesota Book Award in Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

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PAIGE RIEHL: Thank you, Mona, for talking with me about your award-winning novel A Council of Dolls! Your novel is powerful and moving—a compelling story of family, coming-of-age, love, and historical and generational trauma. In A Council of Dolls, through the stories of three generations of women in one Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna Dakhóta family, readers are taken on a powerful historical and… Read more →