Angela Pelster's newest book City Symphony: A Memoir in Accumulations is forthcoming with Mad Creek books in 2021. Her essay collection Limber (Sarabande Books, 2014) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. Her work has appeared in Lit Hub, Tin House, Granta, The Kenyon Review and The Gettysburg Review among other publications. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and has been a Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow at Bread Loaf and a Minnesota State Artists' Initiative grantee in 2017. She lives and teaches in St. Paul, Minnesota.