Robert C. Wright Minnesota Writer’s Residency
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Workshop
10 – 11 am CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Memorial Library, 1st floor SW Corner
This event is free and open to the public.
Craft Talk
3 – 3:50 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Centennial Student Union Room 253/4/5
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Reading with Robert C. Wright Award Winner Annie Lindenberg
7:30 – 8:15 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Centennial Student Union Ostrander Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Allen Eskens is the bestselling author of The Life We Bury, The Guise of Another, The Heavens May Fall, The Deep Dark Descending, The Shadows We Hide, Nothing More Dangerous, The Stolen Hours, and Forsaken Country. He is the recipient of the Barry Award, Minnesota Book Award, Rosebud Award (Left Coast Crime), and Silver Falchion Award and has been a finalist for the Edgar® Award, Thriller Award, and Anthony Award. His books have been translated into 26 languages.
Allen has a journalism degree from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from Hamline University. After law school, he studied creative writing in the M.F.A. program at Minnesota State University-Mankato, as well as the Loft Literary Center and the Iowa Summer Writer’s Festival. Allen grew up in the hills of central Missouri. He now lives with his wife, Joely, in greater Minnesota where he recently retired after practicing criminal law for 25 years.
Allen is represented by Amy Cloughley of Kimberley Cameron and Associates Literary Agency.
Annie Lindenberg is a MFA candidate in Fiction at Minnesota State University, Mankato where she also works as the Graduate Assistant for the Good Thunder Reading Series and as the Head Fiction Editor for Blue Earth Review. Her work has previously been published in The Tower Journal and is forthcoming in Cutleaf Journal and Barnstorm Journal.