Lin Enger

I grew up in Minnesota lake country, have spent most of my life in the state, and now live with my wife and children in Moorhead, where I teach English and also direct the MFA program at Minnesota State University. The world I write about in Undiscovered Country couldn’t be more familiar to me—the woods and gorgeous lakes, ice-fishing and blizzards, hunting, long dark winter nights, and small-town secrets.

Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to receive several awards for my fiction: a James Michener Fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, a Jerome travel grant, and a Lake Region Arts Fellowship. I have an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where I was a Teaching-Writing Fellow, and my short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Ascent, Great River Review, Wolf Head Quarterly, and other journals. During the 1990s my brother, the novelist Leif Enger, and I had a great time collaborating (as L. L. Enger) on a series of mystery novels for Pocket Books.