Members

Alexander Vayle

Alexander Vayle grew up on the quiet shores of Long Lake in Western Minnesota. He now resides in North Dakota where he works in the medical field alongside his wife. Together they raise three rambunctious sons and a beautiful daughter.

Barbara Bustamante

Barbara Bustamante is retired from the food service and education industries. She contributed a poem and three stories in the Moorhead Friends Writing Group anthology, TALES FROM THE FROZEN NORTH. She lives in Moorhead, MN with her cat.

Callen Kropp

Callen Kropp spent a career in corporate communications,  but always knew that someday, she’d publish the children’s books that were dancing in her head.  She believes her series of rhyming picture books appeal to families who know the value of  lap time with a storybook.  The Ozzy Ox series tickle the funny bone with zany rhyme that helps children make good choices. “All children occasionally find themselves in a pickle when facing everyday life. In Ozzy Ox, children find that life’s difficulties can best be overcome by humor, honesty, acceptance and forgiveness,” she says.

Callen Kropp lives outside Jamestown, N. Dak., where her family owns a bison ranch.  She and her husband spend a few months each winter in Gold Canyon, Arizona., but are also working on their bucket list, which includes visiting  every national park in the US.  They love to take their nine grandchildren to destinations they choose. So far, none of them have chosen Ozzy Ox’s “Land of the Ox.”  They prefer to just read out it in Ozzy’s books!  

Chris Stenson

At a young age, Chris had success winning young author contests, and his love for writing continued throughout high school and into adulthood. He is the founder and leader of the Moorhead Friends Writing Group which has hosted nationally known authors as guest speakers. His short story “Two Bobbies” was selected for inclusion in the Horror Writers Network Anthology, The Gates of Chaos, and was published in March 2021. “Roadkill Surprise”, a werewolf short story, was included in the summer print edition of the 2021 Horror ZineMagazine. His newest short story “Planted” will be published in 2023 Fear Forges Anthology Spring Edition.

Dan McKay

Dan McKay has had several short stories published in anthologies every year since 2016, including the FARK FICTION ANTHOLOGY, the TALKING STICK, and the Fargo Library’s NORTHERN NARRATIVES. Dan is the winner of the 2005 Bulwer-Lytton contest and his winning entry was featured on Car Talk. Dan is active in local writers groups and lives with his family in Fargo, ND.

Daniel Wolfe

Daniel Wolfe is a children’s book author living in Fargo, North Dakota. His stories are inspired by and written for his own two kids but are relatable for kids everywhere. Daniel creates books that encourage kids to snuggle up with a loved one, so that they may enjoy the stories together. His books resonate with kids right where they are developmentally, so as to spark imagination, encourage play, and create cherished reading moments for families everywhere.

Eileen Tronnes Nelson

Eileen lives in Grand Forks. Graduate of the University of North Dakota and Moorhead State University. Certified Paralegal National Association of Legal Assistants, retired after serving nearly forty years at Central Legal Research, School of Lay, UND, Grand Forks, ND. She enjoys spending time with her two sons, two daughters, six grandchildren, three bonus grandchildren, three great grandsons, and in-laws: daughter-,son-, three grandsons-, two granddaughters-.

K.A. Meng

K. A. Meng lives in North Dakota, in the same town she grew up. Her love for the paranormal started at a young age when she saw her first ghost.

Today, she spends her time writing paranormal romance, fantasy, and everything in between. When life drags her away from it, she hangs out with her son and friends, goes to movies, watches TV, plays board games,  and reads books. She is actively involved in one writing group and wishes to some day visit Disney World.

Kristin Larson

Kristin Schmidt Larson grew up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  She had a unique childhood traveling and working on her family’s carnival in the summers.  She traveled the Dakotas, and experiences were written in “Traveling Caravan, Growing Up Under The Big Top.” 

Matt Clark

Matt is from South Carolina where he resides with his wife and daughter. After reading THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy in middle school, he dabbled in writing fan fiction of his favorite series. This love of fantasy and writing has followed him since. He is currently working on publishing his debut novel and hopes to have it released by 2024.

Neal Romriell

Neal was born and raised in Idaho where he honed his storytelling skills while spending evenings around the campfire with his family. After graduating high school, Neal moved to the east coast, where he still lives with his wife and 3 daughters. Neal’s debut novel SITE ALPHA was published in June of 2022. He is currently working on a sequel to SITE ALPHA as well as a fantasy series. He hopes to release the first book of the fantasy series in 2024.

Noelle Myers

Noelle Myers is a storyteller, history nerd, and unapologetic foodie living in North Dakota. She’s currently the author of 13 full-length novels, most of which are faith-based historical fiction, spread across three series.

Robert Moore, Jr.

Robert Moore, Jr. is a native of the Mississippi/Louisiana Gulf Coast. Through many moves to diverse places like west Texas, Atlanta, and northeastern Ohio, he wound up in Grand Forks, ND where he works as a lab manager at UND. An astronomer and geologist by training, he can frequently be found pondering a universe of “What if…” type questions.

Robin Cain

Robin began her writing career as a child, penning plays for friends to perform in neighborhood garages. Since then, her publishing credits include articles for online publications, stories in various anthologies, and two novels, the latest of which is entitled, The Secret Miss Rabbit Kept. She lives in Scottsdale, AZ, and you can often find her hiking in the great outdoors. That’s where all her best ideas come from.  Follow iamrobincain on Twitter or Instagram, or Robin Pope Cain on Facebook. Her is email is robin@robincain.com

Sadie Mendenhall-Cariveau

Since she was a child, Sadie Mendenhall-Cariveau has had a passion for writing and remembers telling teachers and family members that she wanted to be a writer. She has won awards, certificates and scholarships for her essays, short stories and poetry since sixth grade. Sadie became more inspired and determined to see her dreams come to fruition while serving in the United States Air Force and began participating in workshops and pursuing degrees in Creative Writing. Drawing inspiration from her own life and everything she feels affected by, her writing has been published in both online and in-print journals as well as the anthology Tales from the Frozen North. Sadie’s goal is to complete her poetry collection and her book and to never stop writing.

Sarah Nour

Sarah Nour is a Lebanese-American freelance journalist. She has written for the High Plains Reader, Area Woman, and other local Fargo-Moorhead publications. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Northern Narratives, Red Weather, Wild Musette, Crow Toes Quarterly, Parakeet Magazine, and other publications. She currently writes articles about film history on HubPages.

Scott Dyson

By day, Scott Dyson works as a healthcare professional, and is a husband and a father to two boys. In his spare time, he writes and self-publishes his tales of horror, mystery and science fiction/fantasy. He has been writing since grade school but it wasn’t until the mid-1990′s, when he was helping to host a book and writing forum on Delphi Internet Services called The Book And Candle Pub, that he got more serious about creating works of fiction.

Stephen Tiedman

Stephen lives in Fargo, North Dakota. When he is not working as a high school English teacher, Steve is writing and coming up with more ideas for stories than he could ever write down. Steve doesn’t stay with one genre, he writes and reads whatever holds his attention long enough. His first self-published novel, A Mourning of Remembrance, received Writer’s Digest honorable mention in 2016. Overall, Steve has written six books and hopefully will have his 7th out soon!

Sue Quinn

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Susette (Sue) Quinn transplanted to North Dakota in the late 80’s. She raised her two girls in Fargo and is proud to see them take wing on their own. She is a full-time bookkeeper and part-time bookseller. When not busy with friends or traveling, she can be found writing or editing. She had her first officially published short story in Tales From The Frozen North, followed by Welcome to Effham Falls, Tales from the Water’s Edge, and Return to Effham Falls. Keep your eyes open because she isn’t done yet!

Suzi Wieland

Suzi writes in a variety of genres and has self-published horror and suspense stories and some fairy tale retellings. She has also published contemporary young adult novels under the name Suzi Drew. When she’s not writing, she spends time with her family and friends and her sweet and fluffy dog, and she works as a freelance editor and gets to edit fantastic stories for her job. 

Tina Holland

Tina studied journalism at University and then went to work for a fortune 500 company, working in Logistics for over twenty years. She now writes full-time and helps her husband run his crop dusting business in the summer months. When she’s not writing, she likes to travel, read and spend time with family and friends.

T.J. Fier

Theatre professor by day and writer by night, T.J. Fier’s other works include the short story Kelpie in NOTHING SHORT OF TERROR, The Hunt in TALES FROM THE FROZEN NORTH, Reindeer Games in THE COLOUR OUT OF DEATHLEHEM, and the EVP Session #454 in the September 2021 issue of Brilliant Flash Fiction. Her debut novel, THE BRIGHT ONE, will be released by Three Little Sisters Publishing November 2022.

Tristan Deurr

Tristan has always loved crafting stories and has expressed that love by writing and acting. He has published his own Anthology titled, “A Collection of Madness” and has acted in many local theater productions. One day soon, he also aspires to become a voice actor. When not getting lost in a good story you can see him sipping his coffee, thinking of what else is out there for him to learn.

William R. Bartlett

William R. Bartlett has been writing the Word from Dad feature in KC Parent magazine since April, 2009. He also has two short stories published in the Moorhead Friends Writing Group anthology, TALES FROM THE FROZEN NORTH, with another short story coming out in a soon-to-be-named anthology to be put out by the same group in spring of 2023.  NUDE, LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING, the story of a May/December relationship and the rather unconventional way it develops, is Bill’s first adventure in writing a novel. A retired youngster of threescore and ten, Bill lives in the southern fringes of the Kansas City area, about six miles north of the oddly-named city of Peculiar, Missouri with his Fayre and Gracious Wyffe, two sons, and an exceedingly pompous cat.