Raymond Strom is the author of the novel Northern Lights. He was born in Hibbing, Minnesota, and as a child moved from small town to small town in the Midwest. He received his MFA degree from the City College of New York, where he works as an academic adviser and studies romance languages. His writing has appeared in Fiction, Tweed's, and the New York Times.
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A stunning debut novel set in the late 1990s as an androgynous youth arrives in small-town Minnesota, searching for the mother who abandoned him as a child On a clear morning in the summer of 1997, Shane Stephenson arrives in Holm, Minnesota, with only... SEE MORE