The Hungry Coast

A fresh and compelling voice in regional fiction, Marlais Brand's new collection, The Hungry Coast, takes the reader for a hair-raising ride along a rocky stretch of the historic and fabled North Shore.

Noah Prinsen Noah Prinsen grew up in Grand Marais and has lived on the North Shore of Lake Superior most of his life. The woodcuts in this book were carved from pine and hand-printed on an antique Line-O-Scribe press. More of his artwork can be viewed at noahprinsen.com. 

Marlais Olmstead Brand Marlais Olmstead Brand lives and writes in the Great Frozen North that mere mortals know as Minnesota. She is the recipient of the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize and her work has appeared in the Best New American Voices collections by Scribner’s and Harvest Books. The Hungry Coast: Fables from the North Shore of Minnesota is Brand's first collection of short stories.