Dean Klinkenberg

Dean Klinkenberg explores themes of place, identity, ambiguity, and the quiet tensions that linger beneath everyday lives through historical fiction, essays, guidebooks, and noir-inspired fiction. Much of his work is inspired by the people and places along the Mississippi River.

Klinkenberg is deeply rooted in the Midwestern US, living as far south as Oklahoma and as far north as Minnesota. He now lives in St. Louis, Missouri.