Description: "Growing up in Western North Dakota, Bonnie Larson Staiger feels deeply connected to her history, the poignant subtleties and often harsh life on the high plains and short grass prairies. Those ties to peoples, landscape, and the realities of our changing cultures and economies that make up the "New American West" creep inexorably into her writing. Most poets hope their work carries a universal thread of humanity to readers. Bonnie's goal is to speak to that shared core within others who may or may not call this place home and to show this region as much more than fly-over country. This is the heart of a continent. Bonnie's chapbook, Destiny Manifested, was awarded the 2018 "Poetry of the Plains and Prairies Prize" by North Dakota State University (NDSU) Press and the "2019 Independent Press Award: Distinguished Favorite.""--
