Bethany Barnett
Minnesota native Bethany Barnett was born just a stone’s throw from Lake Superior, in her opinion the greatest of all the “Great Lakes.” Three years later, Barnett’s family had moved to Little Falls, Minnesota, famous as the home of Charles Lindbergh, the first man to make a solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. This quiet, Mississippi riverside town was the backdrop of Barnett’s childhood, full of swimming, swinging on rope swings, and catching crayfish in the shallows. Much of her early unpublished creative non-fiction and poetry finds its inspiration in this idyllic place and its people. (Bethany Barnett)
