Sheila Packa

Sheila Packa is a poet and writer. She received a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Arts Initiative Award for Poetry, a fellowship from the Finlandia Foundation in 2016, two Loft McKnight Awards (in poetry and in prose) a Loft Mentor Award, and several fellowships and grants from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council in Minnesota. She has five books of poetry and edited the book Migrations, an anthology of Lake Superior writers. She served as Duluth’s Poet Laureate in 2010-2012. Visit https://www.sheilapacka.com for more information and links to her books and blog.