Angela Pelster-Wiebe

Angela Pelster’s new essay collection, The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming (milkweed.org), is forthcoming with Milkweed Editions in April 2026. Her first essay collection, Limber (sarabandebooks.org), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association award and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the Art of the Essay. Her children’s book, The Curious Adventures of India Sophia, won the Golden Eagle Children’s Choice Award. Her essays have previously appeared in Agni, Orion, LitHub, Ploughshares, Tin House, Granta, and The Kenyon Review, among others. She received her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and she’s been a McKnight fellow, a Bread Loaf fellow, and a Minnesota State Arts Board grantee, and she's the founder and director of Writers Go to the Movies.