April 11, 2025
April 11, 2025
The Schedule
- 5:40-6:00 pm: Dan Jorgensen
6:10 -6:30 pm: Erika Krouse
6:40-7:00 pm: Co-Authors Paloma Barraza and Jane Thompson
7:15 -8:15 pm: Q&A Panel with All Authors
The Guests
Paloma Barraza
Paloma Barraza is the Librarian of History, Iberian, and Latin American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Paloma has a masters degree in Art of the Americas from the University of New Mexico, a masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona, and two bachelor degrees in History and Art History from the University of Colorado. Paloma has worked in art museums, natural history museums, archives, public libraries (S/O HPLD), and academic libraries.
Dan Jorgensen
A native of Minnesota, Dan Jorgensen grew up on a South Dakota farm, attending a oneroom country school and becoming the first member of his family to attend college.
After earning both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from South Dakota State University, he studied creative writing and film at Colorado State University where he wrote his first book Killer Blizzard.
Dan and his wife Susan live in Milliken, Colorado.
Connect with Dan online through his blog, A Writer’s Moment.
Erika Krouse
Erika Krouse is a writer of fiction and nonfiction.
Erika went to middle school and high school in Japan, and earned her B.A. from Grinnell College. She earned her M.A. in English Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she also taught creative writing classes. She teaches and mentors for the Lighthouse Book Project at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, and is a winner of the Lighthouse Beacon Award for Teaching Excellence. Erika has won fellowships and scholarships to the Longleaf Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, Sewanee Writers Workshop, and the inaugural Amtrak Residency.
Connect with Erika and learn more on her website, erikakrousewriter.com.
Jane Thompson
Jane Thompson fell in love with art history in high school thanks to an AP Art History course at Greeley Central. She was inspired to start Women’s Art Wednesday while earning a bachelor’s degree in art history from Colorado State University in 2017 with a focus on women artists in history. While she continues to work in education today, her favorite thing remains nerding out about art history with her dear friend Paloma.
The Books
After her brilliant memoir, Tell Me Everything, Krouse shows she can write, well, anything!…If stories were liquor, these would be 150 proof.
―People
It’s rare to find a work that is a real delight in its uniformly feisty, believable protagonists who work within a plot that holds no boundaries. And the Wind Whispered is a remarkable achievement ―Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review
I really enjoyed this book! The layout alone is gorgeous (highly recommend getting the hardcover), but the content was even better. I learned so much about so many talented women artists throughout history, but it didn’t feel like work. The format really worked for me. The entries are short, informative, and engaging. -Kelly, Amazon, 5 stars