Nicole helget biography

Born in , NICOLE LEA HELGET grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota, a childhood and place she drew on in the writing of her memoir, The Summer of Ordinary Ways.

Nicole Helget grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota, and that's the backdrop for her debut publication, a memoir called "The Summer of Ordinary Ways.".

Nicole Helget is the multigenre author of six books for adults and young readers.

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Nicole Helget

Nicole Helget (she/her) is the author of The Summer of Ordinary Ways (Borealis Press/Minnesota Historical Society), The Turtle Catcher (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Stillwater (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Horse Camp (Egmont), Wonder at the Edge of the World (Little, Brown and Company), The End of the Wild (Little, Brown and Company), and the forthcoming essay collection, Love on the Wintry Prairie (University of Minnesota Press). She is a New York Times Editor’s Pick and People Magazine’s Critic’s Choice writer. She has dozens of starred reviews and writing grants for her work in nonfiction and fiction, especially about climate change and water quality. She has written dozens of children’s nonfiction picture books, published under various pen names. She also ghostwrites books for clients. She is the editor-

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Nicole Helget

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Born in , Nicole Helget grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota, a childhood and place she drew on in the writing of her memoir, The Summer of Ordinary Ways. She received her BA and an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Based on the novel's first chapter, NPR's Scott Simon awarded The Turtle Catcher the Tamarack Prize from Minnesota in , Nicole Helget grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota, a childhood and place she drew on in the writing of her memoir, The Summer of Ordinary Ways. She received her BA and an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Based on the novel's first chapter, NPR's Scott Simon awarded The Turtle Catcher the Tamarack Prize from Minnesota Monthlymore

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Nicole Helget: "It's not just me."

Nicole Helget grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota, and that's the backdrop for her debut publication, a memoir called "The Summer of Ordinary Ways," published in by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. The book details Helget's childhood on the farm, and the characters that populated her rural upbringing near the small town of trött Eye, Minn. But this is no pastoral memoir—images sometimes violent and disturbing are rendered almost transcendental by Helget's lyrical prose.

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The depictions of her childhood caused quite a stir upon publication. Members of Helget's own family waged a campaign against the book to the press. But Helget defends her book, and her choice to write it as memoir, not fiction. "To be the highest literary writer that inom wanted to be," she said, "I had to write this as memoir. To call this as fiction, inom would've been able to talk about the things I wanted to focus on, like characterization