Chris Stark

Chris Stark's second novel, Carnival Lights, about two Ojibwe teen girls who leave their reservation for Minneapolis in 1969, was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award finalist and won the NEMBA Award for Best Fiction Book. Her first novel, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation, was a Lambda Literary finalist. She has also published creative non-fiction essays and academic articles and conducted groundbreaking primary research. In 2011, Chris was a Loft Mentor Series Fellow. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato and an MSW from the University of Minnesota Duluth. She has taught writing and literature at colleges and universities for twenty years. Chris is Indigenous and white, and a lesbian. For more information, visit christinestark.com.