Brent Olson

Who is Brent Olson?

Brent Olson is a writer living near Clinton, Minnesota. His first four books are The Lay of the Land, A View from the Prairie, Letters from a Peasant, Still Whistling, the only sane response to a complicated world and Papa, Figuring Out What Matters.. The Midwest Independent Publishers Association awarded Brent Olson the award for Best Regional Book for Letters from a Peasant.

The Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl selected him as their Tributary Artist of 2010. He is the first ever recipient of this award.

He won the American Agricultural Editor's Association Award for "Best Regular Column" in 2010 and 2013. He also won AAEA Awards in 2011 and 2012.

His weekly column, "Independently Speaking", is syndicated around the world.

He is a member of the American Agricultural Editor's Association and the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.

In 2012 he was awarded a Bush Foundation Fellowship.

His Bush Foundation Project, The Inadvertent Cafe, was profiled by Minnesota Public Radio http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2013/04/community_kitchen/