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Lily Osler is a writer from Minnesota. Her humor has appeared in The New Yorker and McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency, and her fiction is forthcoming in Passages North. Please don&#8217;t ask her what suburb she grew up in; she will not tell you.

Lily Osler

Technology

A Wikipedia-Loving but Wikipedian-Intimidated Dork Explores the Minnesota Wiknic

Patrick Strait

Culture

I Rode Valleyfair’s Excalibur Rollercoaster Twice With Superfan Excalibur Michael

Clare is a student at Carleton College interested in telling stories, exploring the Twin Cities, and playing board games.

Clare O’Connor

Meet the Minnesota Neverthriving, the Jugglers Who’ve Found Community in Clowning Around

James Figy

This Twin Cities Yo-Yo Star Has Walked the Dog Around the World—and Probably Your School Gym

Britt Robson believes that basketball is a beautiful game and will use that framework—when beauty blooms and when it is besmirched—to cover the Minnesota Lynx. It is the way he has covered the Minnesota Timberwolves since that franchise&#8217;s second year of existence, for publications too numerous to count but most recently <a href="https://www.minnpost.com/author/britt-robson/">MinnPost</a>, plus regular appearances on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DaneMooreNBA">Dane Moore NBA Podcast</a>. He has also written about music and politics, including hundreds of bylines for City Pages back in the heyday, giving him kinship with the Racket ethos.

Britt Robson

Sports

Minnesota Lynx at the Season’s Midway Point: A Glorious, Unexpected Ride

Jessica Armbruster

Arts

The Revolution Will Be Crafty in Minnesota

Makenzi Johnson is a Bethel University graduate working in the Twin Cities. She&#8217;s also a fashion and storytelling enthusiast.

Makenzi Johnson

Fashion

MN Street Style: Minneapolis People’s Pride 2026

Melodie KG (she/her) is a newly repatriated Minnesotan living in north Minneapolis with her husband and two dog-children. She is a writer, consultant, and nonprofit leader with 100 side hustles and a chronic distaste for authority. You can read more of her work at <a href="https://melodiekg.substack.com/">melodiekg.substack.com</a>.

Melodie KG

WTF Happened at Exxxotica?

<a href="https://meredithboe.com/">Meredith Boe</a> is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, editor, and poet. Her short prose collection What City was a winner of Paper Nautilus’s 2018 Debut Series Chapbook Contest, and her creative work has appeared in Sad Girls Diaries, Passengers Journal, Chicago Reader, After Hours, Burningword, Mud Season Review, Midwestern Gothic, From the Depths, and elsewhere. Her critique has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Newfound, and World Literature Today, and she is a contributor to the Chicago Review of Books.

Meredith Boe

My Aunt From Minnesota Died 51 Years Ago. Decades Later, a Stranger Showed Up Claiming They Were In Love.

Chris Juhn is a Twin Cities based photojournalist who started his career back in 2014. His career has been mainly focused on photojournalism and sports photography. When Chris isn’t on assignment, he loves cooking, trying spicy foods, hiking, and chasing the northern lights.