Brian Duren

Brian Duren writes about characters who traverse time, always returning to what haunts them. Whiteout, which the St. Paul Pioneer Press called a “stunning debut novel, worthy of national recognition,” won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Midwestern Fiction. Nancy Robinson, the Minnesota-based surrealist painter, lauded Ivory Black for “putting an imaginary paintbrush into the hands of the reader and leading the way through an experience so real, it seems like more than a dream.” And Junot Diaz described The Gravity of Love as “a magnificent haunting duet of grief, absence, and the unshakable bonds of family.”