UMN Gesell Writing Fellow
Non-Fiction
Sonia Beltz is a writer from Lockport, New York, whose work focuses on personal and local history and is keenly interested in the intersections of place and identity. Her current work-in-progress is a memoir and essay collection exploring the early life of Belva Lockwood, the first American woman to run a legitimate campaign for president, through her own perspective as a young woman who grew up within the same area of Western New York, nearly 200 years later. She currently lives in Minneapolis, where she is a third-year student in the University of Minnesota’s MFA in Creative Writing.
During her residency, Beltz will work on a collection of essays and is giving a talk at the Goodhue County Historical Society about the life of Belva Lockwood, the first American woman to run a legitimate campaign for president. You can join them for the History Break August 13th at Noon.