Brent Olson

Brent Olson has lived 64 of his 66 years on a small farm

in Big Stone County, on the edge of the prairie in western

Minnesota.

But in his life as a working journalist he's filed articles

from 20 countries on six continents. This has led him

to want to change the world he lives in, through his

work as a county commissioner, and create new worlds

in his two recent novels, "Angr"

and "Between the Helpless and the Darkness."

In this time of news and information tailored so everyone

can hear only what they want to hear, he presents

information that will leave everyone just a little unsettled.

Working with a warm heart and a cold eye, he dissects

what works from what doesn’t in our individual lives, our

institutions, and our country.

He has served on dozens of boards and committees—as

varied as the Big Stone County Pork Producers, and the

Minnesota United Methodist Board of Ordained Ministry.

In his time as a short order cook at his very own Inadvertent

Café he has learned to make fluffy scrambled eggs,

and the best omelets on Main Street in Clinton, Minnesota

(Population 453).

Olson is a Big Stone County Commissioner and a 2012

Bush Foundation Fellow.