Laurie Hertzel (edit name/settings)

 Laurie Hertzel is the books editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She has been a fellow at Duke University, a writer-in-residence at the James Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio, and a faculty member and speaker at the Nieman Conferences on Narrative Writing and Editing at Harvard University. She is the author of "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist," co-author of "They Took My Father," (both published by the University of Minnesota Press), contributed a chapter to "Real Feature Writing," by Abe Aamidor, and is the author of "Boomtown Landmarks," now out of print. She has published short fiction in literary journals and her short story, "Snapshots," won the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize.