{"id":11656,"date":"2025-02-03T21:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11656"},"modified":"2025-02-03T21:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:06:43","slug":"augsburgs-lindsay-starck-among-minnesota-book-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/03\/augsburgs-lindsay-starck-among-minnesota-book-award-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg\u2019s Lindsay Starck Among Minnesota Book Award Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/02\/Lindsay-Headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11657 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/02\/Lindsay-Headshot-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay Starck is bending down close to the camera, her dog is to her left, and there's a donut shop behind her.\" width=\"225\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/02\/Lindsay-Headshot-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/02\/Lindsay-Headshot-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/02\/Lindsay-Headshot-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/02\/Lindsay-Headshot.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Lindsay Starck has been named a Minnesota Book Award finalist for her second novel, \u201cMonsters We Have Made.\u201d Starck is an associate professor of English and director of Augsburg\u2019s MFA program. Published by Vintage Books\/Penguin Random House in March 2024, \u201cMonsters We Have Made\u201d is a poignant and evocative novel that explores the bounds of familial love, the high stakes of parenthood, and the tenuous divide between fiction and reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library organizes the annual Minnesota Book Awards to honor Minnesota writers, illustrators, and artists across 10 different categories. The 2025 Minnesota Book Award winners will be announced on April 22, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about Lindsay Starck\u2019s work and \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/723221\/monsters-we-have-made-by-lindsay-starck\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monsters We Have Made<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Starck has been named a Minnesota Book Award finalist for her second novel, \u201cMonsters We Have Made.\u201d Starck is an associate professor of English and director of Augsburg\u2019s MFA program. Published by Vintage Books\/Penguin Random House in March 2024, \u201cMonsters We Have Made\u201d is a poignant and evocative novel that explores the bounds of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3228],"tags":[3461,1895,3204],"class_list":["post-11656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-kudos","tag-book-award","tag-mfa","tag-minnesota-book-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}