Meet the Finalists: MEMOIR & CREATIVE NONFICTION | 2024 Minnesota Book Awards

Minnesota Book Award winner Staci Drouillard (2024) moderated a discussion between all four 2024 finalists in contention for the Minnesota Book Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction:

Mick Cochrane (for Sue Cochrane), author of “The Crystal Gavel: How I Put My Heart into the Body of Law” (Wise Ink Media)

Jody Lulich, author of “In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing” (University Minnesota Press)

Jeremy Norton, author of “Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response” (University of Minnesota Press)

Emily Strasser, author of “Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History” (University Press of Kentucky)

The Minnesota Book Awards are sponsored by Education Minnesota; Bradshaw Celebration of Life Centers is the 2024 category sponsor for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction.