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Authors

Mark Munger (owner)

Mark is a life-long resident of Minnesota, born in St. Paul, raised in Duluth, an inland seaport of Lake Superior. After practicing trial law for nearly twenty years, Mark became a District Court Judge in 1998 and serves a four county region of Northeastern Minnesota. Mark, his wife Rene’, and their four sons live along the banks of the wild and scenic Cloquet River north of Duluth.

When not writing fiction or managing the affairs of Cloquet River Press, Mark writes a bi-weekly column for the Hermantown Star newspaper. His work has been published in Writer’s Journal and his essay “Leaving Mayo” was a finalist for the 2000 Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Writing Award.

Susanne Kobe Schuler

Susanne Kobe Schuler is a native Minnesotan. Born in Duluth, she spent summers in the Ely area at the resort described in Back of Beyond. She is a graduate of the College of St. Scholastica and a retired educator. An avid and active community volunteer, Susanne is the mother of two adult daughters, the grandmother of five, and is married to Wayne, with whom she resides on an old farmstead along Lake Superior's North Shore just south of Two Harbors, Minnesota. She is at work on a second story collection.