Peg Guilfoyle and Kathryn Nuernberger

Saturday, November 8, 2025
1:00pm, Riverview Room (located upstairs from the Book Fair)

In lyrically written explorations, these two writers dive into the interconnectedness of the natural world and the spiritual practice of paying attention, allowing us to hold both loss and joy.

About the Authors

Peg Guilfoyle is the author of The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories, which won a Midwest Book Award and an Independent Publishers Award, and Offstage Voices: Life in Twin Cities Theater. Her commentary and essays have appeared in the Minnesota Star Tribune, the Minnesota Women’s Press, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, on Minnesota Public Radio, and in numerous other publications. A popular presenter and speaker, Peg has also been a stage and production manager and the producer of many corporate and organizational histories, including Honor Bright: A Century of Scouting in Northern Star Council, which won a Minnesota Book Award.

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of the essay collection The Witch of Eye and the poetry collections RUE, The End of Pink, and Rag & Bone. Her first lyric essay collection, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, won the Journal Non/Fiction Award; other awards include the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an NEA fellowship, and notable essays in the Best American series. She is a Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota.