Ranae Lenor Hanson – Author & Activist
Posts about the Ancestral Connections
Going to a Forest of Our Ancestors
First Report of Finn Forest: Led by Birds on Midsummer Eve
Second Report: Slipping through Borders
Third Report: Asking for Food; Offered a Miracle
Fourth Report: The Stone Cellar at Pålstorp
Fifth Report: A White Wooden House in East Norway Remembers
And Also – Co-Writing about an Ancestry Search
Ancestral Writing and Response
Velho and Christian Too – First Co-Writing by Ranae
Bottled Potions – First Response by Amelia
Related to the Finn Forest project, you could see the August 2025 PEN dialog between Britt Karin Larsen (author of the Finn Forest series) and me Here.
All the author/translator presentations are great, but if you want just ours, go to time point 56.28.
Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress
Winner of the 2022 Minnesota Book Award, Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
Ordering Options
UMNPress – Subtext Books – European Link – Or Your Nearest Independent Bookstore
