{"id":267118,"date":"2025-09-30T18:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267118\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:07:12","slug":"michigan-author-at-north-wind-books-news-sports-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267118\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Author at North Wind Books | News, Sports, Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"543\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/superior-stories-543x840.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Hancock \u2014 North Wind Books in Hancock will feature Michigan author Helen Raica-Klotz for a reading and discussion of her new book. \u201cSuperior Stories,\u201d is the winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest in fiction. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 16, at 5:30 p.m. at North Wind Books, 437 Quincy Street in Hancock.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Stories is a collection of six interconnected short stories set in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan\u2019s northernmost region.<\/p>\n<p>Award-winning novelist Bryan Gruley (\u201cBitterfrost,\u201d \u201cStarvation Lake,\u201d) praised the book. \u201cIn her linked story collection, \u2018Superior Stories,\u2019 Helen Raica-Klotz takes readers deep into the physical and emotional lives of ordinary people struggling\u2013and sometimes failing\u2013to do right by themselves, their families, their friends, and their northern Michigan worlds. Raica-Klotz conjures evocative settings and richly layered up-north characters with language that is both concrete and elegiac, painting a hard yet enchanting landscape of tarpaper roofs, black ice, and hoar frost\u2013a travelogue of human hope and grief, aspiration and desperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Helen Raica-Klotz earned her master\u2019s degree in English from Central Michigan University and teaches composition at Saginaw Valley State University. She has also shared her love of writing in diverse settings including a regional prison, a homeless shelter, and an alternative high school\u2013anywhere she can find people with stories worth telling.<\/p>\n<p>Helen lives in northern Michigan with her husband, Steve, and their black lab, Atticus. When she\u2019s not teaching\u2013or dodging stacks of ungraded papers\u2013she enjoys wandering the woods and soaking up the beauty of the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hancock \u2014 North Wind Books in Hancock will feature Michigan author Helen Raica-Klotz for a reading and discussion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":267119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,2252,139220,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-267118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-life","11":"tag-michigan-author-at-north-wind-books","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115294584475047925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}