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I was born and raised in a small town in Central Minnesota. College and graduate school pulled me to small cities in Minnesota. That small town, small city sensibility informs my writing more than anything else. My characters appreciate the country, maintain community ties, and find solace in the quiet majesty of nature. At the same time, small settings don’t make my characters any less complex than the characters created in big cities and towns. Where there are people trying to find their way in love, in their own family, and in the larger world, there is complexity. There is pain and joy. I hope that my stories resonant as true to life whether the character is gay or straight. I hope that a sense of a spiritual life comes through.
My favorite author is Kent Haruf. He died in 2014. I religiously reread Plainsong and Eventide every couple years. He inspires me in several ways. His writing is beautiful, his selection of detail genius, his characters are plain-spoken, but complex in their emotional lives, and Mr. Haruf was fifty-six before there was any national recognition of his writing gift. Mr. Haruf wrote about the people and place of the fictional town of Holt, Colorado. I write about the people of Bend, a fictional town in rural Minnesota. My first novel and two subsequent novels have some of the same characters and call backs to community events that have shaped the mythology of the town.
Please visit my website www.nancyhedin.com for free writing bits, blog, events, and reviews
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