The Winter Bees Book Signing

Join us in celebrating local author, Jill Kalz in her newest book, The Winter Bees. One of Jill’s signed books will make a treasured holiday gift!

New Ulm native Jill Kalz is the author of the short-story collection The Winter Bees. A 2008 Minnesota Book Award finalist and winner of the Readers’ Choice Award for her picture book Farmer Cap, Kalz is also the author of more than 70 children’s books. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and works as a children’s book editor.

“THE WINTER BEES”

The Winter Bees, published by Minneopa Valley Press, is a collection of 10 interconnected, character-driven short stories that circle around a cast of rural southern-Minnesota residents who bend but do not break, and whose duties often mean personal restraint and heartbreak.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR “THE WINTER BEES”
“… Kalz captures the tenacity, devotion to labor, and will to endure associated with the rural Midwest.”
KIRKUS REVIEWS

“These rich, interwoven stories are where great literature comes from: the closely observed heartbreaks and joys of ordinary people’s lives.”
WILL WEAVER, author of “Sweet Land: New & Collected Stories”