Ryan Berg

Ryan Berg is the author of No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and Other Transgressions, winner of a Minnesota Book Award, the NCCD Media for a Just Society Award, and listed as a Top 10 LGBTQ Book of 2016 by the American Library Association.  Berg received the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and was a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Voices Fellow. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Slate, The Advocate, Salon, The Rumpus, The Sun, and Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. He has been awarded residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Everwood Farmstead Foundation and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He lives in Minneapolis.

Artist Blog Posts
Loft Spotlights
Interview with Author David Adjmi
David Adjmi's debut memoir Lot Six explores "how human beings create themselves, and how artists make their lives into art." For decades now, David’s plays have been produced to critical acclaim, and he’s received multiple prizes, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a Whiting Award.
Ryan Berg
Feb. 9
Loft Spotlights
Meet Author Chris Stedman
Chris Stedman is a Minneapolis-based writer, speaker, and community organizer. He is the author of IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives (2020) and Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious (2012). 
Ryan Berg
Oct. 19
Around the Loft
Interview with Lacy M. Johnson
Lacy M. Johnson’s "The Reckonings" is one of the most necessary and powerful essay collections to come out this year. Each essay grapples with an injustice: from sexual assault to the death penalty to white supremacy to environmental disaster.
Ryan Berg
Feb. 1
Artist Classes & Events
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Narratives of Resilience: Crafting Personal Stories of Healing in Six Weeks
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Sampler Class: Creative Nonfiction with Ryan Berg
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