Lina BelarLina Belar's poetry blends her love for nature and all its creatures, including the human ones, with a foolish love of language. She has been featured in Talking Stick, Lake Region Review, and Northern Lights Library Network's Poets Across Minnesota.In 2017, Lina received the first prize poetry award at the Brainerd Writer's Alliance Festival and she published her first chapbook, Rural Score. She is a fiscal year 2021 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Lina lives in the rural community of Wadena, Minnesota where she is working on her third chapbook. Read More Read Less