Larry Woiwode

Larry Alfred Woiwode is an American writer who lives in North Dakota, where he has been the state's Poet Laureate since 1995. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Gentlman's Quarterly, Partisan Review, and Paris Review. He is the author of several novels and short stories collections, as well as a biography of the Gold Seal founder and entrepreneur, Harold Schafer, a book of poetry, and many reviews and essays that have appeared in dozens of publications, including the New York Times and Washington Post Book World. He has served as Writer in Residence at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and conducted summer sessions as a professor at Wheaton College, Chicago, and the C. S. Lewis Seminars at Cambridge. Woiwode has also conducted seminars and workshops in across the United States and Canada, as well as in England, Lithuania and Scandinavia.