Angela Pelster-Wiebe
Assistant Professor
Biography
Angela Pelster-Wiebe's most recent book, Limber
(Sarabande Books 2014) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New
Writer Award in Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her work has
appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Hotel Amerika, Granta, Granta Finland, Seneca Review, Fourth Genre and The Gettysburg Review amongst others. Her children's novel The Curious Adventures of India Sophia (River Books, 2005) won the Golden Eagle Children's Choice award. War Prayer
her essay film collaboration with her husband Richard Wiebe, won Best
of Festival in Iowa City and has played nationally and internationally
in Chicago, Ann Arbor, Rotterdam, Marseilles, Syros (Greece) and
Scotland amongst others. Pelster-Wiebe was awarded a 2016-2017 Minnesota
State Arts Board grant for completion of her manuscript, City Symphony.
She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta,
and her MFA from the University of Iowa. She has taught courses on the
literary essay, writing for children, memoir and biography and writing
in non-traditional forms at Towson University and the Chesapeake Writing
Conference in St. Mary's City, Maryland.